Open AccessRecent Advances in Economics: A Book of Readings. Edited by Rendings Fels and John J. Siegfried. (Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, 1974).
Author(s) -
Mohammed Malik
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v15i3pp.338-341
Subject(s) - subject matter , subject (documents) , graduate students , classics , sociology , law and economics , library science , history , computer science , curriculum , pedagogy
This book is the latest in the American Economic Associationseries of "readings". But, unlike its predecessors, it is more difficultto review because there is not one but several themes, a mixed bag:mixed in subject matter, in approach, is one's view of things, in itsgeneral tenor, and to some extent, in quality as well. It was publishedin response "to the realization that under¬graduate instruction toooften treats economics as an unchanging body of knowledge instead of asa field of research like medicine, astronomy and archae¬ology, in whichnew discoveries are constantly made" (P. v).