Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. His books include Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Making of the Modern City (2013), Evolution and the Victorians (2014) and Adam Smith (Reaktion, 2016). Introduction by D'Maris Coffman, Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment, University College London. With contributions by Michelle Baddeley, Victoria Bateman, Emmanuelle Benicourt, Katia Caldari, Jonathan Conlin, Mario Graca Moura, Karen Horn, Helen Paul, Joseph Persky, Paul Prew and Scott Scheall.
Thirteen papers present accessible profiles of notable economists, highlighting the ways in which they have influenced attitudes toward market intervention and regulation, taxation, trade, and monetary policy. -- Journal of Economic Literature