标题：Review of Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis , edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northhampton, MA, 2018, 3 volumes, 1919 pp, Paperback, ISBN 978-1-78536-131-9
摘要：Throughout time, there have been many attempts to rebuild the history of economic ideas. Some of them may nevertheless be considered remarkable. First, we can mention the monumental History of Economic Analysis , written by Joseph Schumpeter and published posthumously. Secondly, there is the highly scholarly work of Murray Rothbard, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought . These two books are remarkable not only in terms of their authors’ extraordinary erudition, but also due to their impressive size. However, both works, otherwise quintessential in capturing the evolution of economics, share the disadvantage of remaining unfinished. Their authors’ premature death made readers’ access to complete works able to convey the history of economic ideas in their entirety impossible. In addition, Murray Rothbard claimed from the very beginning that he intended to describe the evolution of the main economic ideas from the Austrian School of Economics perspective, in other words, by following the way in which the concepts that were to become the pillars of the Austrian school (founded in 1870 by Carl Menger, in Vienna) economists’ system of thought. In other words, Schumpeter proposed an unfinished and an allegedly objective history while Rothbard proposed an unfinished, ‘subjective’ history. (Obviously, if we were to propose other important titles, we would first consider Economic Theory in Retrospect , published by Mark Blaug in 1962. However, this book was not as influential as the above mentioned).
