From Philosophy to Economics: Early Essays

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