opportunity to understand why he became such a significant figure in economics over much of the second half of the twentieth … scholar, an indefatigable editor, a generous colleague, a fierce debater. His passing was a sad loss for economics and for the … history of economics. This volume, a kind of Mark Blaug in Retrospect, is a fitting memorial that, at once, captures his many …

"Henry George was the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists. Without formal education he … trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a "single tax" suggestive of the work of the earlier French … economistes. Academic economists of his day rejected his work, but it enjoyed great public popularity in the United States, Europe …

For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that … have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The way in which economists face policy issues is in part driven, even if …, economics is full of uncertainties and uncontrollable difficulties …