Guido Erreygers (ed.)

Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange

Herausgeber: Erreygers, Guido

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The science of economics has grown out of, and interacted with, other sciences, such as moral philosophy, psychology and demography. This book documents exchanges between individual scientists, and explores the boundaries between economics and neighboring fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780415224451
• ISBN-10: 0415224454
• Artikelnr.: 21076931

Autorenporträt

Guido Erreygers is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Applied Economics (UFSIA-RUCA) of the University of Antwerp. His research interests include history of economics, linear production theory, inheritance, and natural resource economics. With Toon Andevelde he has edited the book Is Inheritance Legitimate? (Berlin, Springer, 1997). He has published on the history of economics in various books and journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction 1. Economic Life in Nineteenth Century Novels: What
Economists Might Learn from Literature 2. The Beginning of 'Boundaries':
The Sudden Separation of Economics from Christian Theology 3. History and
Economic Analysis in German Nineteenth Century Economics 4. Jevons and
Wicksteed: Crossing Borders in the History of Economics 5. Economists as
Demographers: Wicksell and Pareto on Population 6. Competition and Economic
Temperature: The Entropy Law in Emanuele Sella's Work 7. Particles or
Humans? Econometric Quarrels on Newtonian Mechanics and the Social Realm 8.
Disciplinary Developments in Dutch Economics and the Emergence of the Dutch
Welfare State (1930-1960)