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Robert Whaples' review is properly headed "Economic History in a *'Mainstream'* Reference
Work." I bought the first edition several years ago, with the intent to add it to my
course outline. I read (most of) it and dropped that idea. It represents the sort of
'mainstream' that equates economics with the neoclassical-cum-econometric paradigm:
measurement without theory, theory without people, people without history. Most modern
introductory textbooks take the same approach to the teaching of our discipline, so why
prescribe a short-order cookbook for our students?
 
Jesse Vorst 
 
 
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