For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the … crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science … than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is …

Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the …

theory of Public Finance -- The Rôle of economics in politics -- Appendix: Recent controversies / Streeten, Paul -- Notes …

profound and rapid changes that are taking place during the 1960's in American economic policy. In this decade economics has … exciting promise of a stronger fiscal base for our federalism, not only by expanding the present system of Federal grants, but … Advisers, so brilliantly united national policy and the new economics in holy wedlock. …

its social and personal implications, his much disparaged critique of classical economics, his pioneering attention to the …