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Adam Smith and All That

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

John Creedy
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Students of economics no longer study the history of economic thought for the simple reason that it is much too difficult. It requires a lot of reading of books that do not have convenient introductions and summaries, and so it takes up far too much time. As a consequence, most economists are not familiar with the great names of the past and are unable to place modern analyses in historical, or any other, perspective.

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Research Article
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 479 - 489
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2002

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