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13 juillet 2021
- handle: 10670/1.2e2d07
- isbn: 9788496820920
- eisbn: 9788490962824
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E.L. Guidi Marco et al., « Economics treatises and textbooks in Italy », Casa de Velázquez, ID : 10670/1.2e2d07
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The present economic crisis has stimulated the public opinion to raise questions about the reliability of market forces. A specific point made by the Harvard students who walked out of Gregory Mankiw’s class of Economics 10 is that [a] legitimate academic study of economics must include a critical discussion of both the benefits and flaws of different economic simplifying models […]. There is no justification for presenting Adam Smith’s economic theories as more fundamental or basic than, for...