"Papers presented at the Third European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE), held at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, 17-19 April 1997."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the canon in the history of economics and its critique; The Mediterranean trajectory of Aristotle's economic canon; The idea of usury in Patristic literature; Self-interest as an acceptable mode of human behaviour; Deconstructing the canonical view on Adam Smith: a new look at the principles of economics; The 'canonical' model of economic growth in the debate between Ricardo and Malthus; In defence of a traditional canon: a comparison of Ricardo and Rau
This book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and re-interpreted
