Economic Mind in America

• List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I Roundtable on American economics, PART II Pioneers of American policy analysis, PART III Contributions to theory and measurement, PART IV Institutional economics, PART V American originals, PART VI American economists and the world, Index

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