Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis

From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780415423236
• ISBN-10: 0415423236
• Artikelnr.: 26488786

Autorenporträt

Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Social Capital Versus Social Theory (2001), The World of Consumption (2002), the co-editor of Development Policy in the 21st Century (2001), and co-author of From Political Economy to Economics (2009) all published by Routledge. Dimitris Milonakis is Associate Professor and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Crete. He is the co-author of From Political Economy to Economics (2009) published by Routledge.

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?