Michel Verdon

Keynes and the 'Classics'

A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a pathbreaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780415140720
• ISBN-10: 0415140722
• Artikelnr.: 25904697

Autorenporträt

Michel Verdon is a retired professor of anthropology from the Université de Montréal. He did his Ph.D. in social anthropology at Cambridge University and concentrated on West Africa, doing a fieldwork among the Ewe of Ghana. He also did fieldwork in rural Quebec and equally specialized in European ethnology. He taught at Cambridge University from 1979 to 1984, before moving to Montreal. He has written two ethnographies and four theoretical books on social anthropology, historical demography and economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter
2: Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter 3: Strange Cosmological
Bedfellows Chapter 4: From Cosmology to Language Chapter 5: Keynes's
Economics: What Kind of Revolution? Chapter 6: Keynes and Speculation:
Aristotle Revisited Chapter 7: More Substance and Transactions Chapter
8: From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics Conclusion Appendix 1:
Mirowski on Science and Economics Appendix 2: Marx's Economics: Successes
and Failures Notes Bibliography Index