From Philosophy to Economics: Early Essays

About the Book

Essays on Descartes, Schopenhauer, Marx, Bergson, Adam Smith, David Ricardo Kuhn, Hecksher-Ohlin. Topics include: certainty, ego, duration, consciousness, free-will, alienation, naturalism, scientifi c revolutions, profi ts, rents, classical and marginalist economics, foreign trade theory. Th ese essays were written when I was a graduate student in philosophy in the late 1960s at New York University and then a decade later as a graduate student in economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Many of them were of publishable quality, acording to my professors, but would fi rst have to be rewritten. Th e rewritting stopped me from publishbing them. However, when I recently retrieved these papers from a storage facility in Long Island City, I realized that they were better than I thought and decided to publish them but still resisted rewritting them. But I did edit them, and had them word processed because they were typed on a typwritter.

About the Author

These essays were written when I was a graduate student in philosophy in the late 1960s at New York University and then a decade later as graduate student in economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Many of them were of publishable quality, acording to my professors, but would first have to be rewritten. The rewritting stopped me from publishbing them. However, when I recently retrieved these papers from a storage facility in Long Island City, I realized that they were better than I thought and decided to publish them but still resisted rewritting them. But I did edit them, and had them word processed because they were typed on a typwritter. Neil lives in Manhattan and upstate New York with his wife of thirty years, Annette, and his two dogs. He has taught philosopy ia SUNY and economics at Fordham University and Hunter College. He retired in 2003 as a medical economist who worked in various parts of the health care industry both as an employee and consultant. He now spends most of his time writting books on a wide range of topics. His study of five dystopian novels will be publihed in 2010. He is also working on a book on the philosophy of comedy and another one about philosophical issues in biology.