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Notes and Further Reading The literature on the topics covered in this book and that which I consulted during the research for it is voluminous and, in the case of topics in modern economics, often quite technical. The references provided here include the relevant primary sources and important secondary sources, with the latter selected with a general audience in mind. General Reading The History of Economic Thought: A ———. “Pythagorean Mathematical Idealism Backhouse, Roger E. The Ordinary Business Reader, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013. and the Framing of Economic and Political of Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Theory.” Advances in Mathematical Press, 2002. (Outside the U.S., this book There are also several online sources that Economics, vol. 13: 177–199. Berlin: is available as The Penguin History of allow one to access many of the writings Springer, 2010. Economics.) noted in this book—and a wealth of others c. 380 bce, Plato, Aristotle, and the Backhouse, Roger E., and Keith Tribe. The beyond that: Golden Mean History of Economics: A Course for Students The Online Library of Liberty: Aristotle. c. 335 bce. Politics, 2nd ed. Trans. and Teachers. Newcastle Upon Tyne: oll.libertyfund.org Carnes Lord. Chicago: University of Agenda Publishing, 2017. The McMaster University Archive for Chicago Press, 2013. Blaug, Mark. Economic Theory in Retrospect, the History of Economic Thought: ———. c. 340 bce. Nicomachean Ethics. 5th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ Trans. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Press, 1996. ugcm/3ll3/ Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly JSTOR: jstor.org. Press, 2012. Philosophers, 7th ed. New York: Gordon, Barry. Economic Analysis Before Touchstone, 1999. Extensive amounts of information about the Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius. London: Spiegel, Henry W. The Growth of Economic work of the economics Nobel Laureates Macmillan, 1975. Thought, 3rd ed. Durham: Duke University can be found on the official website of the Lowry, S. Todd. The Archaeology of Economic Press, 1991. Nobel Prize, nobelprize.org. Ideas: The Classical Greek Tradition. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. There are also a number of very useful refer- The readings listed below include both the Plato. c. 380 bce. The Republic. Trans. C. D. ence works that explore the individuals and primary source(s) associated with each C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, ideas dealt with in this volume: milestone and important secondary sources 2004. Faccarello, Gilbert, and Heinz D. Kurz, dealing with that individual, idea, and/or eds. Handbook on the History of Economic event. c. 370 bce, Xenophon’s Oeconomicus Analysis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016. Lowry, S. Todd. The Archaeology of Economic c. 700 bce, Hesiod’s Work and Days Ideas: The Classical Greek Tradition. Blaug, Mark, and Howard R. Vane. Who’s Gordon, Barry. Economic Analysis Before Who in Economics, 4th ed. Aldershot: Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius. London: Spiegel, Henry W. “Xenophon.” Vol. 4 of The Edward Elgar, 2003. Macmillan, 1975. Durlauf, Steven N., and Lawrence E. Blume, New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Hesiod. Work and Days. Trans. A. E. Ed. John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Stallings. New York: Penguin Classics, Economics, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, Peter Newman. London: Macmillan, 1987. 2018. Xenophon. c. 370 bce. Oeconomicus: A 2008. Online at dictionaryofeconomics. Lowry, S. Todd. The Archaeology of Economic com. Social and Historical Commentary. Ed. Ideas: The Classical Greek Tradition. and trans. Sarah B. Pomeroy. Oxford: Henderson, David R. The Concise Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. Encyclopedia of Economics. Indianapolis: Clarendon Press, 1995. 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