Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9781349122653 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 351 str.

Warren J. Samuels

Opis

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The individuals whose work is singled out include Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E. Witte, Robert Lee Hale and Joan Robinson.

Spis treści

The scope of economics historically considered; the history of economic thought as intellectual history; the state, law and economic organization; a centenary reconsideration of Bellamy's "Looking Backward"; thorstein veblen, heterodox economist, in retrospect; the firing of E.A. Ross from Stanford University - injustice compounded by deception?; Edwin E. Witte's concept of the role of government in the economy; the economy as a system of power and its legal bases - the legal economics of Robert Lee Hale; legal realism and the burden of symbolism - the correspondence of Thurman Arnold Galbraith on economics as a system of professional belief; Gardiner C means's institutional and post Keynesian economics; in praise of Joan Robinson - economics as social control.