What do economists know? : new economics of knowledge / edited by Robert F. Garnett, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garnett, Robert F.

Series:

Economics as social theory.

Economics as social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Economists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A provocatively rethink of the questions of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Academic economists in the twentieth century have presumed to monopolise economic knowledge, seeing themselves as the only legitimate producers and consumers of this highly specialized commodity. This has encouraged a narrow view of economics as little more than a private dialogue among professionally licensed knowers. This book recasts this narrow view.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Economics of knowledge: old and new; 2 The transgressive knowledge of ersatzŽ economics; 3 Look at me look at you; 4 Jack, David, and Judith looking at me looking at them; 5 The crowding out of academic economics; 6 Bridging the gap between the public's and the economists' views of the economy; 7 Economic knowledge, professional authority, and the state; 8 Foundations and economic knowledge; 9 Can there be genre difference in economic literature?

10 Postmodernism and identity conditions for discourses11 The role of econometrics in the neoclassical research progrma; 12 A picture is worth a thousand words; 13 Mandating knowledge; 14 Strategy and tactics in the pedagogy of economics; 15 A working knowledge of economics?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-62198-1

1-134-62199-X

0-203-02157-6

1-280-33330-8

0-203-15931-4

9780203021576

OCLC:

57016522