Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis

From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers one of the critiques of cliometrics, institutional economics, and Douglass North's work. This book departs from the traditional arguments against rational choice theory and offers a case that economic history is the poorer for the developments initiated by the cliometricians.

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Ben Fine, the author of Social Capital versus Social Theory and a renowned exponent of Marxian political economy and Dimitris Milonakis offer one of the first systematic critiques of cliometrics, new institutional economics and Douglass North's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780415423243
• ISBN-10: 0415423244
• Artikelnr.: 26488338

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Historical Logic of Economics
Imperialism 3. The Economic Approach: Marginalism Extended 4. New Economics
Imperialism: The Revolution Portrayed 5. From Economics, through
Institutions to Society? 6. From Social Capital to Freakonomics 7.
Economics Confronts the Social Sciences: Resistance or Smooth Progression?
8. Whither Economics? 9. Whither Social Science? 10. Whither Political
Economy?