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.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| 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.