Margaret Schabas is professor in and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Margaret Schabas's fascinating book... charts the progress of this transformation, beginning not with Bacon and Descartes but with the origins of formal economics in the moral philosophy of the French Enlightenment.... A wide-ranging and challenging book that can be read profitably both by economists and a wider spectrum of readers interested in the history of science. - Times Literary Supplement