How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics by David M. Levy

How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics

David M. Levy

336 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced

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It is widely asserted that the Victorian sages attacked classical economics from a humanistic or egalitarian perspective, calling it the dismal science, and that their attack is relevant to modern discussions of market society. David M. Levy here ...

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