Excerpt from Getting and Spending: An Introduction to Economics
Mrs. Fisher has written a book on elementary Economics which those who come to it with open minds and with a willingness to think over what she says will find both interesting and enlightening. To have produced so animated and yet so judicious a little volume is something of an achievement: it could be accomplished only by one who has learnt as a teacher to enter into the minds of others and who possesses the gift of lucid expression.
The writer of this book stands in the line of spiritual succession to the creators of English Political Economy - to Adam Smith and Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. Her readers will observe with what respect she refers to these masters; and, if they should continue their economic studies, they will find that the fundamental assumptions of the founders of systematic economic teaching are hers also. I must confess that there have been very many earlier books, which essayed the same task in a similar spirit, which I should have hesitated to commend. English Political Economy, when it first presented itself to the world as an ordered body of thought, combined, with much that was true and of permanent value, much that was so one-sided as to be misleading and no little that was simply erroneous.
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