"The writer of a history of economic thought must have, above all else, some principles of selectivity...The contemporary intellectual historian, in the space of one book, can therefore present only a limited number of the most important ideas of the most important thinkers ."
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E. K. Hunt, History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective (3rd ed., 2011), Preface
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