Essays on the nature and state of modern economics = Nature and State of Modern Economics
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| Sprache: | English |
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London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Economics as social theory
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Continuing myths and fallacies of modern economics; 2 Modern economics: the problem and a solution; 3 The nature of heterodox economics; 4 What is this 'school' called neoclassical economics?; 5 The current economic crisis: its nature and the course of academic economics; 6 Contemporary economics and the crisis; 7 Mathematical modelling and ideology in the economics academy: competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline?
- 8 Tensions in modern economics: the case of equilibrium analysis9 Soros' theory of reflexivity: a critical comment; 10 Ontology, modern economics, and pluralism; 11 The varying fortunes of the project of mathematising economics: an evolutionary explanation; Index of names; Index of subjects
- What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of th