From political economy to economics

method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

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From political economy to economics

method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

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Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
374

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London, New York

Table of Contents

Introduction
Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought
Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression
Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx
Not by theory alone: German historismus
Marginalism and the Methodenstreit
The Marshallian heritage
British historical economics and the birth of economic history
Thorstein Veblen: economics as a broad science
Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism
In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik
Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology
From Menger to Hayek: the (re)making of the Austrian School
From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory
Beyond the formalist revolution.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes.

Series
Economics as social theory, Economics as social theory

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.15/7, 330.01
Library of Congress
HB98.2 .M55 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 374 p. ;
Number of pages
374

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24813426M
Internet Archive
frompoliticaleco00milo
ISBN 10
0415423228, 041542321X, 0203887115
ISBN 13
9780415423229, 9780415423212, 9780203887110
LCCN
2008022095
OCLC/WorldCat
230729555

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