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Thisreprinting of Professor Bowen's classic 1948 work inaugurates a new series "Political and Social Economy." The series will be devoted to developing a literature reflecting a humanistic point of view in economics and economic theory. It will include reprints and commissioned new works espousing a diversity of similarly broad-gauged and frequently nontraditional points of view. Its objectiveimplicit in the series titleis to increase the angle of vision of economics. The purpose of Professor Bowen'sToward Social Economy,stated in the Preface to the first edition, is "to present a view of thewholeeconomic system, and at the same time to fit that system into place as one part or aspect of the more comprehensive social fabric." It provides a framework of a complete course in economics for the general reader as well as the student of economics. C. Addison Hickman, the coeditor of this significant new series, has contributed a Foreword reflecting on the importance and contemporary relevance of Professor Bowen's work and making a case for a broad viewpoint in the formulation of economic theory and public policy.Bowen, Howard R. is the author of 'Toward Social Economy', published 1977 under ISBN 9780809308132 and ISBN 0809308134.
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