A History of Economic Thought. By Agnar Sandmo

摘要

This is a fine, up-to-date volume in the long tradition of books on the history of economic ideas. One can only agree with the judgment of Avinash Dixit that the book "... gives us simple, succinct, and thoughtful accounts ofthe ideas that have shaped the subject over the past three centuries." As such, it can serve well and appropriately as the preferred textbook for any course on the history of economic thought.1 Having said this, what else is left for a reviewer to say? There remain only trivial quibbles and minor differences of opinion that the author may or may not choose to take into account in future editions of the book.