Volume 35, Number 3 · March 3, 1988
Economics Without Power
By Robert L. Heilbroner
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
edited by John Eatwell, edited by Murray Milgate, edited by Peter Newman
The Stockton Press, 4 Vols., 4,103 pp., $650.00
The four gigantic volumes of The New Palgrave—nearly 2,000 entries, more than 700 biographies, over 4 million words—may be said to represent more or less everything that is known about what is called economics. The subject is far more sprawling than most people think. We would expect a dictionary of economics to contain such entries as Consumption and Production, Investment, Business Cycles, and the like, but The New Palgrave also has entries on sports, lemons (not the fruit), and performing arts. Yet there is none on power, although power would seem to be inextricable from economics.[1]
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