Open Economics

Economics in Relation to Other Disciplines
Herausgeber: Arena, Richard; Klaes, Matthias; Dow, Sheila

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economics has developed into one of the most specialised social sciences. Yet at the same time, it shares its subject matter with other social sciences and humanities and its method of analysis has developed in close correspondence with the natural and life sciences. This book offers an assessment of economics in relation to other disciplines.

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This book offers an up to date assessment of economics in relation to other disciplines, combining the work of leading international scholars and rising young stars and presenting an historical introduction to the disciplinary context of economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780415460125
• ISBN-10: 0415460123
• Artikelnr.: 26488892

Autorenporträt

Richard Arena is Professor of Economics at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. Sheila Dow is Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, UK. Matthias Klaes is Professor of Commerce at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Economics in relation to other disciplines Richard Arena,
Sheila Dow and Matthias Klaes Part I. Economics in relation to the
humanities and social sciences 1. The social science of economics Brian J.
Loasby 2. Economics and literature Bruna Ingrao 3. Happiness: what Kahneman
could have learnt from Pietro Verri Pier Luigi Porta Part II. Economics in
relation to the life and natural sciences 4. Newtonian physics,
experimental moral philosophy and the shaping of political economy Sergio
Cremaschi 5. Evolutionary biology and economic behaviour: re-visiting
Veblen's instinct of workmanship Mark Harrison 6. Medicine and economics in
pre-classical economics Alain Clément and Ludovic Desmedt Part III.
Economics and mathematics 7. Mathematics as the role model for neoclassical
economics Nicola Giocoli 8. The role of econometric method in economic
analysis: A reassessment of the Keynes-Tinbergen debate, 1938-43 Giovanna
Garrone and Roberto Marchionatti IV. Economics and architecture 9.
Economics and architecture Maurice Lagueux 10. Economic policies and urban
development in Latin America Michele Alacevich and Andrea Costa V.
Economics and geography 11. 'Space' in economic thought Giovanna Vertova
12. Economics, geography and colonialism in the writings of William Petty
Hugh Goodacre Part VI. Economics and sociology 13. Economics and sociology:
Gustav Schmoller and Werner Sombart on social differentiation Joachim
Zweynert 14. Is Homo Oeconomicus a 'bad guy'? Isabelle This Saint-Jean