Tony Lawson (UK University of Cambridge)

Reorienting Economics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality - placing ontology at the heart of a discipline integrated within the wider human and social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Economics as Social Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780415253369
• ISBN-10: 0415253365
• Artikelnr.: 21806499

Autorenporträt

Tony Lawson is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Current Orientation of the Discipline and the Proposed Alternative
Chapter 1 Four Theses on the State of Modern Economics
Chapter 2 An Ontological Turn in Economics
Chapter 3 What has Realism got to do with it?
Part 2 Possibilities for Economics
Chapter 4 Explanatory Method for Social Science
Chapter 5 An Evolutionary Economics?
Chapter 6 Economics as a Distinct Social Science?
Part 3 Heterodox Traditions of Modern Economics
Chapter 7 The Nature of Post Keynesianism and the Problem of Delineating the Various Heterodox Traditions
Chapter 8 Institutional Economics and Realist Social Theorising
Chapter 9 Feminism, Realism and Universalism
Part 4 A Historical Perspective on Economic Practice
Chapter 10 An Explanation of the Mathematising Tendency in Modern Economics