Victor A. Beker (Argentina Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Economics, Social Science and Pluralism

A Real-World Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This book maintains that economics is a social science whose mission is to explain and, when possible, predict, phenomena of the real-world economy. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to see economics return to its origins as a social science.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781032212319
• ISBN-10: 1032212314
• Artikelnr.: 69928800

Autorenporträt

Victor A. Beker is Professor of Economics at the University of Belgrano and the University of Buenos Aires, both in Argentina. He has been Director of the Economics Department at the University of Belgrano and of the Economics Programme at the University of Buenos Aires, and has been awarded several prizes for his works in economics. A former Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, he is also author of several economics books and papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
PREFACE
Chapter 1. WHY ECONOMICS WENT ASTRAY
Chapter 2. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Chapter 3. WHAT CAN ECONOMICS LEARN FROM OTHER SCIENCES?
Chapter 4. THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE CLASSICS
Chapter 5. MARSHALL AND WALRAS
Chapter 6. THE KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 7. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION: FROM FRIEDMAN AND LUCAS TO ARROW-DEBREU
Chapter 8. FROM THE REAL BUSINESS CYCLE THEORY TO THE NEW KEYNESIANISM
Chapter 9. ECONOMICS AS A REAL-WORLD SOCIAL SCIENCE
Chapter 10. THE NEED FOR PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS
Chapter 11. NORMATIVE ECONOMICS
Chapter 12. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX