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Science 18 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5874, pp. 318 - 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157088
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ECONOMICS:
First, Kill the Economists

E. Roy Weintraub

The Dismal Science
How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
by Stephen A. Marglin
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 375 pp. $35, £22.95, €26.50. ISBN 9780674026544.
The author argues that his fellow economists' enthusiasm for the market is unwarranted and ignores the corrosive effects market relationships have on communities.
The reviewer is at the Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0097, USA. E-mail: erw{at}econ.duke.edu

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