The Economic Point Of View: An Essay In The History Of Economic Thought
(By Israel M. Kirzner)
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In The Economic Point of View, Kirzner explores the basic ideas around which the entire body of economic thought has revolved for some two centuries. He explains how the �economic point of view� emerged in the development of economic science since the eighteenth century and through it, the concepts of purpose, subjectivism, and rationality. Kirzner�s incomparable ability to navigate through the core ideas of economics helps the reader become progressively familiar with the history of the discipline and its definition.
Within the seven chapters, Kirzner discusses such subjects as the science of wealth and welfare; the nature of economic science and the significance of macroeconomics; and the sciences as human action, including a section on praxeology and its relationship to the economic point of view. As Mises writes in his foreword to the volume, �Dr. Kirzner�s book . . . is a very valuable contribution to the history of ideas, describing the march of economics from a science of wealth to a science of human action. . . . �Every economist�and for that matter everybody interested in problems of general epistemology�will read with great profit Doctor Kirzner�s analyses.�
Fr�d�ric Sautet is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a member of the graduate faculty at George Mason University.
