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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
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (389 pages)
Series Economics as Social Theory, 30
Economics as Social Theory, 30
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought; 3 Mill's conciliation, Marx's transgression; 4 Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx; 5 Not by theory alone: German historismus; 6 Marginalism and the Methodenstreit; 7 The Marshallian heritage; 8 British historical economics and the birth of economic history; 9 Thorstein Veblen: Economics as a broad science; 10 Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siècle of American institutionalism
11 In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialökonomik12 Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology; 13 From Menger to Hayek: The (re)making of the Austrian School; 14 From Keynes to general equilibrium: Short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory; 15 Beyond the formalist revolution; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index
Summary Developments within economics of incorporating the historical (and the social, institutional, etc more generally) have been welcomed as progress over excessive formalism and lack of realism. But, by situating these developments in terms of the shifting relationship between economics, the historical and an evolving economics imperialism, a fuller understanding of the role of economic theory and the historical is presented as a prerequisite for analysis that aspires fully to address economic and historical change
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Subject Neoclassical school of economics -- History
Economics -- History.
Economics
Neoclassical school of economics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fine, Ben
ISBN 9780203887110
0203887115