From Orthodox to Heterodox Economics and Beyond : Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 10.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Ben.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.363

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoclassical school of economics.

Radical economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

Economics is extreme in methodology and theory. This Volume charts how orthodoxy has evolved to remain unfit for purpose. By contrast, heterodox economics is shown to be vibrant and wide-ranging despite orthodoxy's Americanisation and monopolisation of the discipline.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Chapter 1 Straddling the Orthodox/Heterodox Economics Divide

1 Introduction

2 From Orthodox Economics …

3 … to Heterodox Economics …

4 … and Beyond

5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 2 Endogenous Growth Theory: A Critical Assessment

Postscript as Personal Preamble

2 New Growth for Old?

3 Opening a Can of Dynamics

4 Statistical Conundrums

5 The Favoured Terrain of Applications

5.1 Asset-Stripping Schumpeter

5.2 New Trade Theory

5.3 Accounting for the State

5.4 Money, Finance and Growth

5.5 The Political Economy of Growth

6 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3 Competition and Market Structure Reconsidered

2 Competition and the Determination of Market Structure

2.1 Type I Analysis

2.2 Type II Markets

3 A Critical Reassessment

Chapter 4 Prospecting for Political Economy

2 From Dismal to Paradoxical Science?

3 Social Science Strikes Back?

4 From Paradoxes to Progress?

Appendix 1

Postscript

Attaching Economics to the Brain or from Free to Choose … to "Motor Reponses to Brain Chemistry"

Appendix 2

Erstwhile Hypotheses

Chapter 5 "Useless but True": Economic Crisis and the Peculiarities of Economic Science

2 From the Crisis of Capitalism …

3 … to the Crisis of Economic Theory …

4 … to Political Economy

Chapter 6 Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons - A Discussion of Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Engaging Elinor Ostrom.

Chapter 7 The General Impossibility of Neoclassical Economics

2 Formalism and Content in Economic Theory

3 Russell's Paradoxes

4 Implications for Economics

5 Broader Considerations

6 Keynes and the Philosophical Foundations of Economics

7 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 8 Interrogating Sickonomics, from Diagnosis to Cure: A Response to Hodgson

2 From the Social …

3 … to the Individual?

4 And Methodological Individualism

5 And from Formalism …

6 … to Markets …

7 … and a Bit More if Not All

Chapter 9 Economics - Unfit for Purpose: The Director's Cut

1 How Economics Got Its Spots

2 Economics and Ethics

Chapter 10 Post-truth: An Alumni Economist's Perspective

1 Mathematical Beginnings

2 From the Social and the Aggregate …

3 … to the State and the Systemic

4 And the Micro-foundations of Macro or the Other Way About?

5 The State of South Africa, the Military, and Cost Benefit Analysis Is Good?

6 Social Capital, the World Bank and All That Jazz

7 Economics Imperialism and Mainstream Authoritarian Monopoly

8 Prospects for Alternatives

From Bard to Verse

Larkin' with Social Capital

Chapter 11 Mathematical Economics as Aid or Obstacle to Heterodox Economists? A Personal Experience: The Director's Cut

2 The Mainstream Is Wrong on Its Own Terms

3 Mainstream as Critical Point of Departure

4 Mathematics and Heterodoxy in Its Own Right

References

Index.

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Print version: Fine, Ben From Orthodox to Heterodox Economics and Beyond: How Mainstream Neoclassical Economics Got to Be the Way It Is and How It Needs to Change

ISBN:

9789004761445

OCLC:

1593366804