| This alphabetically arranged reference contains information on hundreds of economic propositions named for particular writers. Each of the cross-referenced entries summarizes a law or theorem and concludes with a succinct bibliography of suggestions for further reading. A sampling of topics includes Buchanan's clubs theory, the Slutsky equation, Palmer's Rule, Gaussian distribution, and Harsanyi's equiprobability model. The editors teach economic theory and the history of economic thought at the U. Complutense in Madrid. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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| The authors begin this work by explaining the term "eponymous" as "the practice of affixing the name of the scientist to all or part of what he has found." Eponyms get inquiring minds interested in the thinker behind the theorem and thus serve to help move students from the starting point of a dictionary to a more scholarly article or book. This useful dictionary is a first of its type in any field, including economics, and thus fills a void. It explains most of the existing economic eponyms and even some noneconomic ones. Beginning with the "Adam Smith problem" and ending with "the Zellner estimator," each entry is written by an individual scholar and includes a brief bibliography for those who will undoubtedly become interested and want to learn more. The page labeled "mathematical notation" at the beginning of the work will be useful for students attempting to understand one of the many entries concerned with mathematics or econometrics. Summing Up: Essential. All libraries with business and economics collections serving lower-division undergraduates and up. Copyright 2005 American Library Association. |
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