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Article: Shadows on the wall. (Reviews).(A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to The Dismal Science)
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- February 1, 2002
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A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to The Dismal Science. By E. Ray Canterbery. 427 pages. New Jersey: World Scientific. $52.00.
Pity the economist, for if he had read Plato he may have chosen a different discipline. In a Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science, Ray Canterbery all but concedes that throughout history, economists have been trying to make sense of shadows on the wall.
A Florida State University professor of economics, Canterbery argues that economic theories are products of their time and influence the culture in which they are produced. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was inspired by Newton's ...