Prelude to Political Economy : A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics

ISBN-13: 9780198296713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 308 str.

Kaushik Basu

Opis

It is essential to view economics as embedded in politics and society. Prelude to Political Economy is a study of this embeddedness; it argues for an inclusive approach to institutions and the state.

Recenzje

Basu covers everything from game theory to norms to the foundations of economics to the nature of the state. The question remains whether it fits the second category of an Ah-Ha book, and partly it does. Here we have a very smart economist, who knows all the standard results of his discipline, thinking very hard about political economy and government, and willing to entertain speculative notions. He does come up with something.

O autorze

Professor of Economics and holds the C. Marks Chair at the Department of Economics, Cornell University. He has previously been Distinguished Visitor, London School of Economics (1993), Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Princeton University (1989-91), Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1985-86) and Professor, Delhi School of Economics (1985-94). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Award for contributions to economics. In 1981-2 he was CORE fellow at CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He has published extensively in the areas of development economics, game theory, social choice and welfare and industrial organization theory. http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kb40/