Blunt instrument : why economic theory can't get any better...why we need it anyway /

"A defense of economic theory, in spite of its failure as a predictive science, as a tool of social engineering"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Why We Need to Understand Economic Theory
  • Economics Won't Budge, Can't Budge, from Rational Choice Theory
  • Adam Smith Is Still Setting the Agenda For Economic Theory
  • Who Invited Calculus?
  • Who Needs Money? Not Economic Theory!
  • Back to the Future with the New Classical Macroeconomics.
  • Economic Theory's War against Profit
  • It's All Game Theory Now
  • Financial Markets Are the Most Important Markets. So Why Are They Fated Always to Fail?
  • Why Economics Is Indispensable Anyway.