A Perilous Progress. Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America.

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The twenty-century saga of the economics profession in America is the story of how a humble quest to understand the wealth of nations became imbued with immense public prestige and, finally, a strangely withered public purpose. Bernstein portarys a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life.

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