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The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marglin, Stephen A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Markets--Social aspects.
- Markets.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Economic development.
- Communities.
- Social structure--Economic aspects.
- Social structure.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 359 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- How thinking like an economist undermines community
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Economics, the market, and community
- What is community? and is it worth the cost?
- The cutting edge of modernity
- Individualism
- Some history
- From vice to virtue in a century
- How do we know when we do not know?
- Sources of the modern ideology of knowledge
- Taking experience seriously
- Welfare economics and the nation-state
- Why is enough never enough?
- The economics of tragic choices
- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development
- Appendix A: The limits of dissent
- Appendix B: The distributional roots of the enclosure movement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-350) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674026544
- 0674026543
- OCLC:
- 133465536
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