The Uses and Abuses of Economics: Contentious Essays on History and Method

ISBN-13: 9780415094047 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 328 str.

Terence Hutchinson

Opis

This volume collects some of Terence Hutchison's most significant contributions to the history of thought and to economic methodology. Reflecting the principle that an idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining, the essays range widely.

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Part 1 Progress and Regress in Political Economy; Chapter 1 From William Petty to Adam Smith and the English Classicals; Chapter 2 Jeremy Bentham as an Economist; Chapter 3 James Mill and Ricardian Economics; Chapter 4 On The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Economic Literature; Chapter 5 ‘Ricardian Politics’; Chapter 6 The Politics and Philosophy in Jevons’s Political Economy; Chapter 7 The Jevonian Revolution and Economic Policy in Britain; Chapter 8 From ‘Dismal Science’ to ‘Positive Economics’; Part 2 Subjectivism, Methods and AIMs; Chapter 9 Notes Towards the Identification and History of ‘Subjectivism’ in Economic Theory; Chapter 10 Hayek, Mises and the Methodological Contradictions of ‘Modern Austrian’ Economics; Chapter 11 A Methodological Crisis?; Chapter 12 The Wisdom of Jacob Viner; Chapter 13 The Uses and Abuses of Academic Economics;

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Terence Hutchison