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September 14, 2015, 07:43:15 AM

As much as I hate to agree with the professor... but Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_economic_thought) says that the history of economic sciences stretches back to 500 BC. So at least there were at least proto-economists as far back as before the time of Jebus.

It's a little bit like calling Alchemists scientists. In any case, I would like to hear which 16th century mind argued for inflation, especially as currency was specie.


The punchline is that Stolfi is making things up to suit his own rendition of history, and trying to characterize some kind of united front and consensus in economics, which would hardly be the case in any given time frame... surely there are going to be majority and mainstream economists and starting in the 1800s there are going to be marxists, who were NOT mainstream, except maybe in certain communist country circles.