Schools and Streams of Economic Thought (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Schools and Streams of Economic Thought For the most part, the writers whose works are studied are allowed to tell their own stories in short quotations from their works, when these are available in English and such a practice can be followed without disturbing the narrative or using too much space. Where quotations are made, references ordinarily are given to the editions used. Use has sometimes depended on convenience, but in most in stances the sources are available in the larger libraries. Where there are a number of editions of the same book and it seems appropriate, references are made to chapters and sections rather than to pages of particular editions. With one exception (in a papal encyclical), the King James version has been used for Bible quotations. The book has been prepared on the assumption that few of its readers are likely to want to check authorities which are unavailable to them except in foreign languages but that many may desire to do so when only English is involved. This may be an unscholarly view to take, but it is a realistic one. References are given accordingly. Names have been given in full when a writer is first mentioned in an important connection. It is unsatisfactory to be able only to refer to a person as this or that because one is unaware of what the initials represent. Where, as sometimes with French writers, there are too many given names for this practice to seem reasonable, one or more of these names are omitted, as may appear appropriate. British peers are given their correct titles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.