A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMIC GENIUSSTRATHERN’S

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

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Title:	A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMIC GENIUSSTRATHERN’S
Author(s):	Edith Kuiper
Volume:	22 Editor(s): W.J. Samuels ISBN: 978-0-76231-089-0 eISBN: 978-1-84950-257-3
Citation:	Edith Kuiper (2004), A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMIC GENIUSSTRATHERN’S, in W.J. Samuels (ed.) A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.419-428
DOI:	10.1016/S0743-4154(03)22027-7 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Paul Strathern’s book, A Brief History of Economic Genius, is a history of economic thought that is written for the general public. The book contains photographs, no footnotes and a very limited list of sources that functions as a list of “further reading” advice. This book stands in a long line of over more than forty books by Paul Strathern on the lives and works of great philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, Locke, Kant, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Madame Curie as the exceptional woman scientist. In these books he introduces the lay reader in an accessible and brief manner to often complicated ideas. As his other books, A Brief History tells the life stories of scholars, which are here woven into an account of the history of economics.