This book represents the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of Hicks' economics. Omar Hamouda demonstrates that Hicks had a coherent methodology and a complex but complete vision of what economics is. The book begins with a fascinating account ofHicks' life and career and goes on to analyze his contribution to the many areas of the subject in which he was active. The author shows how Hicks' ideas were proposed, how they were trasformed over time and how, through time, the pieces fit together.