From Philosophy to Economics: Early Essays

About the Book

Diverse, introductory, and interesting essays on Descartes, Schopenhauer, Marx, Bergson, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Kuhn, Hecksher, Ohlin.

Topics include: certainty, conditions for knowledge, empirical and a priori knowledge, ego, duration, consciousness, free-will, alienation, naturalism, scientific revolutions, profits, rents, classical and marginalist economics, foreign trade theory. 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 a graduate student in economics at the Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research.

After reading and digesting these essays the reader will be able to converse with philosophers and economists on these topics at dinner parties and other social gatherings, as long as the reader keeps the conversation on a superficial level.

About the Author

Neil Shandalow, currently a retired medical economist, with degrees in philosophy and economics, has previously published the initial version of this book, From Philosophy to Economics: Early Essays. He has taught philosophy at SUNY and economics at Fordham University and Hunter College. He retired in 2003 and now spends most of his time writing books on a wide range of topics. His Studies in Twentieth Century Dystopian Fiction will be published in 2013. He and his wife, Annette, live in New York City and upstate New York with their two dogs.