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There is a widespread impression today that the history of economics is a sequence of revolutions and counter-revolutions, successive schools rising to dominance just to be deposed in a crisis by another school. According to this view, paraphrasing Marx, all history of economics is a history of school struggles, punctuated by revolutions.

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Jürg Niehans (Bern, 8 November 1919 - Palo Alto , California, 23 April 2007) was a Swiss economist.

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