Eminent Economists: Their Life PhilosophiesMichael Szenberg Cambridge University Press, 1993 M05 28 - 304 páginas An intimate view of the dominant economists of this century, scholars whose work changed the direction of the discipline, is presented in this volume. The contributors who come from quite divergent points of the ideological compass present their life philosophies and reflect on their conceptions of human nature, society, justice and the source of the creative impulse. The self-portraits reveal details of the economists' personal and professional lives that capture the significance of the total person. Moreover, they illuminate the product of their labor, and as such, they change one's notions of what an economist can do or be. An introduction by Michael Szenberg, editor-in-chief of The American Economist, makes career and philosophic pattern comparisons. |
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Preface | ix |
Acknowledgments | xv |
Introduction | 1 |
The Passion for Research | 17 |
I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw | 42 |
Sociopolitical and Methodological | 51 |
Recollections and Reflections of a Comparativist | 60 |
From Chemistry to Economics and Beyond | 69 |
My Working Philosophy | 167 |
My Professional Life Philosophy | 180 |
Social Science Ethics and the Role of the Public Sector | 190 |
My Apprenticeship as an Economist | 203 |
Past Present and Future | 222 |
Policy Credos and Working Ways | 236 |
My Search for Welfare | 248 |
Living in Interdisciplinary Space | 261 |
My Quest for Economic Knowledge | 84 |
From the Inside Looking Out | 98 |
Random Walk and Life Philosophy | 107 |
How I Tried to Become an Economist | 115 |
Nicholas GeorgescuRoegen about Himself | 128 |
Autobiographical Notes with Reflections | 160 |
Notes on Coping | 270 |
Solving the Most Urgent Problems First | 275 |
Scientific Humanism as an Ideal | 283 |
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Página vi - But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.