The age of fragmentation : a history of contemporary economic thought / Alessandro Roncaglia, Sapienza University of Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roncaglia, Alessandro, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Età della disgregazione. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Economics--History--20th century.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 442 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction. A non-linear discourse

Part I. The Background. The foundations : classicals and marginalists ; The immediate precursors

Part II. The Giants of the Short Century. The founder of neo-liberalism : Friedrick von Hayek ; The revolutionary : Piero Sraffa

Part III. The Fragmentation of the Mainstream. The new microeconomics : general equilibrium and expected utilities, theory of industrial organization ; The macroeconomics of the neoclassical synthesis ; The myth of the invisible hand : neo-liberal streams ; Applied economics and econometrics

Part IV. The Weakening of the Paradigm. Behavioural economics and bounded rationality ; From efficient financial markets to the theory of crises

Part V. Is a New Paradigm Possible? Post-Keynesian macroeconomics ; Marxism, evolutionism, institutionalism ; Ethics and the problem of power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Roncaglia, Alessandro, 1947- The age of fragmentation

ISBN:

9781108777766 (electronic bk.)

1108777767 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99994383056

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