Economics and Its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics - Hardcover

'Unique, intensive and extensive in its subject matter...this volume has every quality to become a classic.' - C.J. Talele, Choice

'William Coleman's wonderful book [is]...a terrifically valuable piece of scholarship...vast reading and it shows.' - David M. Levy, George Mason University, USA

'...a crushingly learned volume on the history of economic thought. This should definitely earn him professional praise.' - Professor Eric Jones, University of Melbourne, Australia Policy

'It should be on the shelves of anyone interested in intellectual history, alongside the works of Isaiah Berlin.' - P.P. McGuiness, Editor, Quadrant

'I am reading it with great pleasure' - Robert Lucas, Nobel Laureate in Economics 1995

'This is a brilliant book, conceived on a vast and daring scale, and argued with magisterial conviction.' - Dennis O'Keeffe, Salisbury Review

'...[for] anyone who wants to illuminate the historical background of the economic critique, this book is a rich mine.' - Benedikt Koehler, Fankfuter Allgemeine Zeiting

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises. Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic and Environmental anti-economics.