This is a new interpretation of the historical development of our understanding of the workings of the economy. Mark Perlman and Charles R. McCann\'s important work illuminates the foundations of economic inquiry during the past three hundred years....

In this volume eighteen scholars have contributed chapters exploring themes such as the history of economic theory, applied economics and an evaluation of Mark Perlman\'s written contributions....

This volume comprises fourteen essays, which identify four areas in which theoretical and empirical developments are discusses for the fuller understanding of personal (as opposed to collective) behavior with economic objectives: rational choice andassociated problems of logic; rationality as explained by game theory; experiments to elucidate ratio...

Continuing in this book his major examination of the authority systems of economics, Mark Perlman, with his co-author Charles R. McCann, Jr., structures his approach to the history of economic thought and the influences upon it around the four factors of production, together with the institutional role of the market....