From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics : The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780415423243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 216 str.

Fine Ben; Ben Fine

Opis

Ben Fine, the author of 'Social Capital versus Social Theory' and a renowned exponent of Marxian political economy and Dimitris Milonakis offer one of the first systematic critiques of cliometrics, new institutional economics and Douglass North's work.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Historical Logic of Economics Imperialism 3. The Economic Approach: Marginalism Extended 4. New Economics Imperialism: The Revolution Portrayed 5. From Economics, through Institutions to Society? 6. From Social Capital to Freakonomics 7. Economics Confronts the Social Sciences: Resistance or Smooth Progression? 8. Whither Economics? 9. Whither Social Science? 10. Whither Political Economy?