Tony Lawson

Essays on

The Nature and State of Modern Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of these issues currently available. This forceful and persuasive collection represents a major intervention in the on-going debates about the nature, state and future direction of economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138851016
• ISBN-10: 1138851019
• Artikelnr.: 41608988

Autorenporträt

Tony Lawson is Professorial Research Fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation and Reader in Economics at Cambridge University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Some fallacies or myths of modern economics 2. Modern economics: the
problem and a solution 3. The nature of heterodox economics 4. What is this
'school' called neoclassical economics? 5. The current economic crisis: its
nature and the course of academic economce 6. Contemporary economics and
the crisis 7. Mathematical modelling and ideology in the economics academy:
competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline 8. Tensions
in modern economics: the case of equilibrium analysis 9. Soro's theory of
reflexivity a critical comment 10. Ontology, modern economics, and
pluralism 11. The varying fortunes of the project of mathematising
economics: an evolutionary explanation