In a seeming attempt to legitimate or otherwise dignify social economics (Économie sociale, etc.), “named” economists (Adam Smith, Karl Marx et al.) have been dubbed social economists and/or regarded as having made significant but unrecognised contributions thereto. Conspicuously absent from that roster of celebrities are Léon Walras, économiste social par excellence, et al., who have distinguished themselves in the mainstream but also have done social economy(ics) explicitly, i.e. by that designation. Included in that illustrious et al. list are François Quesnay, J.B. Say, Friedrich von Wieser and Knut Wicksell (inter alios). Their due recognition, as per the present essay, cannot help but measurably further legitimise/dignify social economics.
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July 01 2000
Full‐fledged and forthright social economists under‐acclaimed Available to Purchase
Thomas O. Nitsch
Thomas O. Nitsch
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6712
Print ISSN: 0306-8293
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2000
International Journal of Social Economics (2000) 27 (7-8-9-10): 739–767.
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Nitsch TO (2000), "Full‐fledged and forthright social economists under‐acclaimed". International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 27 No. 7-8-9-10 pp. 739–767, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290010335091
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