Late Neoclassical Economics: The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory

ISBN-13: 9781138599345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 218 str.

Yahya M. Madra

Opis

This book draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition.

　

Recenzje

'Late neoclassical economics may be more mature than neoclassical economics, but it is not different from neoclassical economics as it has been practiced before...Madra succeeds in presenting a very clear and concise thesis which is highly relevant and interesting. His argumentation is straightforward, convincing and precise. The leitmotiv of the investigation never gets lost.' - Thomas Domjahn, History of Economics Review

O autorze

Yahya M. Madra teaches Economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has published and co-authored articles on various issues in political economy in both edited book volumes and journals.