From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milonakis, Dimitris
Other Authors: Fine, Ben
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Economics as social theory.
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Table of 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.