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From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory / Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine.
Lippincott Library HB98.2 .M55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milonakis, Dimitris.
- Series:
- Economics as social theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoclassical school of economics--History.
- Neoclassical school of economics.
- Economics--History.
- Economics.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought
- Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression
- Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx
- Not by theory alone: German historismus
- Marginalism and the Methodenstreit
- The Marshallian heritage
- British historical economics and the birth of economic history
- Thorstein Veblen: economics as a broad science
- Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism
- In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik
- Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology
- From Menger to Hayek: the (re)making of the Austrian School
- From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory
- Beyond the formalist revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-355) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780415423229
- 0415423228
- 9780415423212
- 041542321X
- 9780203887110
- 0203887115
- OCLC:
- 230729555
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