Econ-art : divorcing art from science in modern economics / Rick Szostak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szostak, Rick, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Economics--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'While identifying two types of activity, namely econ-art and econ-science, he demonstrates why economists should acknowledge their artistic impulses and develop a more scientific conduct.' ARTbibliographies ModernHistorians of economic thought have long recognised the possibility that cultural influences might be important, but have never analysed them in any detail. In the first study of economics from the perspective of art history, Rick Szostak shows how the cultural influences identified by art historians have affected economic theory. He also reveals that not only has economic theory been informed by aesthetic considerations, but the very methods employed by economists are shown to serve primarily artistic goals. Professor Szostak assesses the extent of these cultural and aesthetic effects through a wide-ranging study of the development of surrealism, cubism and abstract art, juxtaposed with examples drawn from virtually every field of economics. Two types of endeavour are identified, Econ-Art and Econ-Science. Szostak argues that the pursuit of econ-science would be much aided if economists first recognised their artistic impulses, and then developed more scientific standards of conduct. As the first economist to thoroughly address the question of whether Economics is Art, Professor Szostak raises some important philosophical issues with this volume. The result is a controversial and scholarly, yet accessible, examination of the influence of both culture and aesthetic considerations on economics.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter One: Art and Science

1.1 Unveiling Econ- Art

1.2 The Question of Purpose

1.3 The Purpose of Art

1.4 Art versus Science

1.5 Science versus Art

1.6 Art and the Act of Insight

1.7 A Micro View

1.8 Culture and Economics

Chapter Two: Surrealism

2.1 Modern Art

2.2 The Roots of Surrealism

2.3 Surrealism

2.4 Surrealism in Econ- Art

2.5 Who Cares About Reality?

2.6 Toward a Better World?

2.7 Primitive Man

2.8 An Orderly World

2.9 The Quest for Understanding

2.10 An Antidote to Nationalism

2.11 Suspicion of Authority

Chapter Three: Cubism and More

3.1 Cubism

3.2 The Cubist View of Time

3.3 Technological Incursions

3.4 Return to the Classics

3.5 A Brief Look Back

3.6 Abstract and Non- Objective Art

3.7 Self- Reference in Econ- Art

3.8 The Pursuit of Linearity

3.9 The Econ- Art Manifesto

Chapter Four: Mathematics as Art

4.1 The Deification of Technique

4.2 Maths as Art

4.3 Automatic Writing

4.4 Maths as Science?

4.5 Yet Another Perversion

4.6 There Exists a Model

4.7 Maths is Easy

4.8 Maths is Unreal

4.9 Mathematics versus Science

4.10 An Example: General Equilibrium

4.11 A Second Example: Econometrics

Chapter Five: Ideology

5.1 Ideology in Art

5.2 Ideology in Econ- Art

5.3 Power

5.4 Ideology and the Great Depression

Chapter Six: Econ-Art/ Econ-Science

6.1 The Existence of Econ- Art

6.2 Econ- Art/ Econ- Science

6.3 The Quest for Econ- Science

6.4 A Lesser Purpose

6.5 Artistic Detachment

6.6 The Existence of Econ- Science

Chapter Seven: Improving Econ-Science

7.1 Improving Econ- Science

7.2 Reality

7.3 Truth versus Beauty

7.4 Philosophy of Science

7.5 Pancritical Rationalism

7.6 Truth

7.7 Rhetoric.

7.8 The Big Picture

7.9 Methodological Diversity

7.10 A Concrete Example

7.11 Theoretical Diversity

7.12 Intellectual Honesty

7.13 Interdisciplinarity

7.14 The Role of the Critic

Chapter Eight: The Future of Econ-Science

8.1 A Paradigm Shift?

8.2 Normal versus Revolutionary Science

8.3 Putting Equilibrium in its Place

8.4 Postmodernism

8.5 We Eat Our Young

8.6 But thou economic history, though thou be little among the thousands of econ

8.7 Preaching What I Practise

8.8 The Survey of Economists

8.9 Rules of the Game

8.10 What of Econ- Art?

Notes

Notes to Preface

Notes to Chapter One

Notes to Chapter Two

Notes to Chapter Three

Notes to Chapter Four

Notes to Chapter Five

Notes to Chapter Six

Notes to Chapter Seven

Notes to Chapter Eight

References

Index

Aaron, H.,

126

163

Aesthetic standards in economics

6

8-12

15

18

30

33

43

66

75-7

79

86

88

96

118

128

131

142

147-8

154-5

158

164-7

174

179

Agricultural economics 156

Allen, R. 220

Altruism

36-7

40-1

49-50

122

Anarchism

52-3

102-3

Aragon, L. 76

Architecture

4-5

105-6

119-20

180

Argyrous, G.

175

231

Aristotle

81

140

Arnason, H.

42

51

62

102

221

Arrington, C. 44

Arrow, K. 94

Art, definition of, xi-xiii

2-6

13-16

32

Ashby, E. 201

Asian art

5

7

89

151

Assumptions

32-3

64-5

68-70

78-9

84

86-7

93-5

97

99

113

120

123

140-2

157-8

165

167

201

Austrian economics

48

162

Ayres, C. 106

Backhouse, R.

9

184

Balakian, A. 207

Baran, P. 86

Baron, J. 230

Barr, A.

59

63

78

207

213

Bartlett, Randall

49

73.

113-14

149

153

166

216

Bartlett, Robin 160

Bartley, W.

144

200

Bateman, B. 184

Baumol, W. 159

Beauty

10

12

19

39

68

77

120-2

137-41

147

150-1

187

203

212

Becker, G. 197

Beed, C.

154

Belton, R. 104

Bergson, H. 54

Berman, M.

44

46

55

210-11

Bhaskar, R.

31

70

169

Billington, D. 5

Blatt, J.

83

218

Blau, J. 181

Blaug, M.

20-1

92

94-6

133

152

157

205

Blinder, A.

197

224

Boland, L.

82

Booth, W. 146

Borges, J.

27-8

40

45

Boulding, K. 166

Bowles, S.

94

114

Boylan, T. 168

Braque, G.

51-2

178

Breit, W.

8

50

143

226

Brenner, R.

230

Breton, A.

25

36

57

109

Bronfenbrenner, M. 124

Buiter, W. 63-4

Caldwell, B.

155

Canterbury, E. 225

Capital

82-3

85

Capra, F.

16

90

134

139

150

Carr, J. 149

Carter, J. 109

Case studies

160

173

192-3

195

Cezanne, P.

65

Chagall, M. 24

Chalmers, A.

14

107

141

145

171

220

Chamberlin, E. 21

Chaos theory

35

Classical economics

28

34

53

56-9

110-11

188

223

229

Cloke, P. 181

Clower, R.

138

214

Coase, R.

176

Colander, D.

xii

13

87

127

153-4

174-5

204-5

208

217-18

225

232

Communism

Consumption

28-9

48-9.

54

63-4

95

116

194-6

Cooper, D. 52

Coote, J.

Cosmides, L.

168

Cowling, E. 63

Crafts

4

121

Crafts, N. 220

Craver, E. 97

Cromer, A. 99

Cultural influences, general, xi, xiii-iv

3

19-23

Da Vinci, L.

Dabrowski, M.

60-1

Dada

69

Dali, S.

Darby, M. 117

Dasgupta, A.

22

206

227

Dasgupta, P. 6

David, J-C.

104

Dawkins, R. 215

De Chirico, G. 24

Deane, P.

228

Debreu, G. 81

Delaunay, R.

60

Demand and supply curves

54

81-2

156

Development economics

136

177

193

199

Diagrams

2

17-18

61

Diaz-Alejandro, C. 87

Dixit, A. 179

Dornbusch, R. 160

Dosi, G.

172

Dow, G. 223

Drafting 4

Dréze, J. 127

Duchamp, M. 102

Dynamic versus static analysis

53-6

171-2

179-80

187-8

190

227-8

Dyson, T. 229

Earl, P.

110

Econometrics

56

64

87-8

96-101

154-8

161

165-6

186

192

195-7

232-3

Economic geography 167

Economic growth

37

100

128-9

151-3

185-9

233

Economic history

114-17

135-6

184-96

233-4

Eichengreen, B. 154

Eichner, A.

108

Einstein, A. 89

Eizenstat, S. 224

Environment

41

124

198

Equilibrium

53-5

195.

Ernst, M.

Evolutionary economics

xv

175-6

Experimental economics

29

Feldman, E. 5

Fels, R. 157

Feminist perspectives

182

Ferber, M.

Feyerabend, P.

13-14

Feynmann, R. 163

Field, A. 232

First World War

24-5

52

80

115

125

Fish, S.

106

Fisher, F. 179

Fishlow, A. 190

Fleming, W.

26-7

53-4

119

211-12

Fogel, R. 190

Fortin, P. 79

Foucault, M. 211

Freedman, C.

74

164-5

215

Freud, S.

26

103

Friedman, M.

56-7

66-70

115-16

Fusfeld, D.

21-2

106-7

Futurists

Galbraith, J.

Galileo, G.

Game theory

129

Garden of economic theory

112

Gardner, B. 156

General Equilibrium theory

92-6

Getman, J. 188

Goethe, J. 30

Golding, J.

Gombrich, E.

209

Goodman, N. 7

Gordon, R. 197

Gordon, S.

Government, role of

37-8

47-50

58

66-8

108-9

111

117

196

198-9

Gowdy, J. 161

graduate

72-3

181-5

Great Depression

21

27

93

189

193-6

234

Gris, J. 51

Grossman, G.

Grubel, H.

73

183

Habermas, J. 233.

Hadjinicolaou, N.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9781849645348

1849645345

9780585425627

0585425620

OCLC:

923332540