| Description |
vi, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / David Kehl and Stephen McCarthy -- 2. John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and the Development of Political Economy / Thea Vinnicombe and Richard W. Staveley -- 3. Adam Smith and the Invention of Economic Science / Richard W. Staveley -- 4. Ethical and Methodological Foundations of Marshall's Economics / Richard W. Staveley and James E. Alvey -- 5. Keynes's Return to Reality: The General Theory of Employment / David Kehl -- 6. Friedrich A. Hayek's Economic Theory of Law / Stephen McCarthy -- 7. The Theory of Economic Development as Presented by Gunnar Myrdal / Paul McMahon -- 8. Rational Expectations Economics as the New Classical Economics / Ian McKirdy |
| Summary |
"This book is a collection of essays that examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors of seminal theories in modern economic thought. The main theme linking all of the chapters together is that economics is a product of modern rationalism and shares with that rationalism the belief that the only real knowledge is scientific knowledge. Derived from a scientific method modeled on mathematics, this technique gives both modern political science and modern economics their abstract character."--Back cover |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Economics -- Political aspects.
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Rational choice theory.
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Political science -- Methodology.
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| Author |
McCarthy, Stephen, 1963-
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Kehl, David, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2008004140 |
| ISBN |
9780739116241 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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073911624X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739116258 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0739116258 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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