Overall, Kishtainy gives significant attention to economic thinkers who were outside the consensus of their time. The book is chronological, from early Greek philosophers to twenty-first century economic psychologists, inequality researchers, and others, who are clearly different from the mid-twentieth century mainstream. Generally, a chapter focuses on one or two representative thinkers if the topic is thin, Kishtainy may introduce related economists to get to six pages.
Kishtainy gets around this artificial limit by giving some topics or economists another look in second chapters (e.g., Keynes and the 1960s policy-Keynesians). This book, one in the Yale University Press “little histories” series, seems to follow a formula for brevity thirty-nine of forty chapters number just six pages long (the one miss is by a few short sentences).
Frey, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University. Niall Kishtainy, A Little History of Economics.
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