Re: 1911 Reference Book Defines Georgism

On Oct 3, 10:06 pm, "lysan...@xxxxxxxxxxx" <lysan...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4nd6alor2goC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=ela...

This book [Blaug, 5th edition] is actually a very good text on
economic history.

No, it is not. It is a textbook on the history of economic thought.

Given its size, it is not surprising that it contains erroneous
statements. I suspect that somebody like Roy Weintraub
would not use it except as an example of the Whig theory of
history.

By the way, is John now willing to retract his equally
uninformed statement of 26 September:

"The only reference that economist make to a neoclassical
model is to Robert Solow's model of economic growth."

Contrast, for example, Blaug's Chapter 15 title.


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