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Author Milonakis, Dimitris.

Title From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory / Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
Published London ; New York : Routledge, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages)
Series Economics as social theory
Economics as social theory.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Neoclassical school of economics -- History
Economics -- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
Economics
Neoclassical school of economics
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fine, Ben.
ISBN 9780203887110
0203887115
1134099444
9781134099443
1281932221
9781281932228
9786611932220
6611932224