"One of the unhappy casualties of World War I, it seems, was the old-fashioned treatise on economic "principles." … Since the brilliant burst that gave us the works of Wicksteed (1910), Taussig (1911), and Fetter (1915), this type of treatise has disappeared from economic thought, and economics has become appallingly fragmented, dissociated to such a degree that there hardly is an economics any more; instead, we find myriad bits and pieces of uncoordinated analysis."
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Murray N. Rothbard, "Preface to Revised Edition," Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles (1962, 1993), contained in Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition (2nd ed.) (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004, 2009), pp. li–lii.
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Philip Wicksteed
Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844–18 March 1927) was an English scholar, known primarily as an economist. He was also an Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic.
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