From political economy to economics method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Economics as social theory.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626562406719 |
| Summary: | Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic, and unravel the processes that lead to orthodoxy's current predicament. The book details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and the dehistoricisation of the dismal science, accompanied by the separation of economics from the other social sciences, e |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781134099436 9781134099443 9781281932228 9786611932220 9780203887110 |
