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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:46:51 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Robinson Crusoe Economics
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Economic Harmonies; Bastiat, Frédéric, 1850

http://www.econlib.org/cgi-bin/searchbooks.pl?searchtype=BookSearchPara&id=basHar&query=Robinson


Popular Political Economy: Four Lectures Delivered at the London 
Mechanics' Institution; Hodgskin, Thomas, 1827

http://www.econlib.org/cgi-bin/searchbooks.pl?searchtype=BookSearchPara&id=hgskPP&query=Crusoe+


The Poverty of Philosophy, Karl Marx, 1847
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch01.htm



On 9/27/2012 4:59 PM, Robert Murphy wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am interested in tracking down the history of when economists began
> using Robinson Crusoe as a pedagogical device in their writings. I
> know that Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk uses him to make points about capital
> theory, but I imagine it goes back earlier than Bohm-Bawerk. Are there
> any articles detailing this? Failing that, do the people here have
> ideas for older examples of economists using Robinson Crusoe by name?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Murphy

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