Wealth of Notions: Economists in ConflictEvent DetailsDate(s) & Time(s):: Weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM from September 14, 2012 until December 14, 2012 Location: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana Phone: 217-333-3777 Link: http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ Event Description
Curated by Samuel Bostaph
Return to event list.Economic thinking begins with the recognition of scarcity. The limitation of the means for securing the ends that are the purpose of individual or collective action requires choosing among possible means. The ends themselves are limited by the finitude of human aspirations and of life itself. Choosing rationally among ends, as well as among suitable means, requires principles of choice. Economics is the science of those principles. This exhibition will trace the formulation of modern economic thought through representative texts drawn from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Hollander Economic Library collection. Assembled by Jacob Harry Hollander (1871-1940), Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, the Hollander Library is one of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's great treasures. Containing nearly 4100 books, manuscripts, letters, realia, and portraits, it encompasses the broad sweep of almost 450 years of economic thought. |
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