Mar 24, 2006
Long Live Adam Smith!
Liberty and Power readers might enjoy a new blog by a good historian of economics, Sandra Peart. The blog’s excellent name is Adam Smith Lives!.
Sandy has done a lot of interesting work with David Levy in straightening out a number of misconceptions in the history of economics. See, in particular, their illuminating "The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Economics, Religion, and Race in the Nineteenth Century," which, among other things, sets out the real source of the epithet “dismal science.”
Sandy has done a lot of interesting work with David Levy in straightening out a number of misconceptions in the history of economics. See, in particular, their illuminating "The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Economics, Religion, and Race in the Nineteenth Century," which, among other things, sets out the real source of the epithet “dismal science.”