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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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