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- Jonathan Derbyshire, Guardian, 29 March 2008
"Marglin is a professor of economics at Harvard, but The Dismal Science reads like
the confession of an apostate from the guild. (One turns to it with relief after the
stiflingly triumphalist atmosphere of The Logic of Life.) Marglin is a recovering
economist, you might say, who sees in the behavioural approach a missed opportunity
for a `trenchant critique' of the `assumptions about people that form the core of
economics'."
the confession of an apostate from the guild. (One turns to it with relief after the
stiflingly triumphalist atmosphere of The Logic of Life.) Marglin is a recovering
economist, you might say, who sees in the behavioural approach a missed opportunity
for a `trenchant critique' of the `assumptions about people that form the core of
economics'."
Deidre McCloskey, Times Higher Education, 27 March 2008
"[Marglin] explores in open-handed and often graceful prose `what is lost
in...economic development...when markets become a sphere unto themselves'. One
may dispute Marglin's retailing of the Left's economic history, from R. H. Tawney to
Robert Allen (and indeed Marglin himself). But one can only applaud Marglin's
readable contribution to the undermining of Max U."
in...economic development...when markets become a sphere unto themselves'. One
may dispute Marglin's retailing of the Left's economic history, from R. H. Tawney to
Robert Allen (and indeed Marglin himself). But one can only applaud Marglin's
readable contribution to the undermining of Max U."
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