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Author: Lawrence Boland
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teacher, lies, economics, principles
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1995-10-24
ISBN-10: 0415132088
ISBN-13: 9780415132084
The Principles of Economics will help a new generation of economists to overcome the traditional economic metaphysics, exploring the central questions by-- hopefully--more testable, realistic concepts. This book is about forming effective critiques of neoclassical economics. Its focus is on constructive criticism of the foundations of neoclassical theory, beginning with what Alfred Marshall called the `Principles of Economics’. It concludes that there is still much that can be done to make neoclassical economics more realistic.
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Author: Gerald M. Meier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: perspective, future, economics, development, frontiers
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2001-01-15
ISBN-10: 0195215923
ISBN-13: 9780195215922
With contributions from 35 leading economists, this forward-looking book explores the future of development economics against the background of the past half-century of development thought and practice. Outstanding representatives of the past two generations of development economists assess development thinking at the turn of the century and look to the unsettled questions confronting the next generation.The volume offers a thorough analysis of the broad range of issues involved in development economics, and it is especially timely in its critique of what is needed in development theory and po
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Author: David K. Levine
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Keywords: versus, extraordinary, ordinary, doomed, economics, behavioral
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2012-09
ISBN-10: 1906924929
ISBN-13: 9781906924928
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics – an effort to incorporate psychological ideas into economics – has become all the rage. This book by well-known economist David K. Levine questions the idea that behavioral economics is the answer to economic problems. It explores the successes and failures of contemporary economics both inside and
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Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Keywords: economics, sins, secret
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2002-08-01
ISBN-10: 0971757534
ISBN-13: 9780971757530
Deirdre McCloskey’s work in economics always calls into question its reputation as "the dismal science." She writes with passion and an unusually wide scope, drawing on literature and intellectual history in exciting, if unorthodox, ways. In this pamphlet, McCloskey reveals what she sees as the secret sins of economics that no one will discuss—two sins that "cripple" economics as a "scientific enterprise."
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