Economics
Subtitle: from the dismal science to the moral science, the moral economics of Kendall P. Cochran
By: [edited by] Susan McHargue Dadres, Mona S. Hersh-Cochran and David J. Molina
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Eagle Editions, an imprint of the University of North Texas Libraries; University of North Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781680400007
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Radical economics; Economics; Schools of economics; Sociological aspects
Description: "Professor Kendall Cochran was a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics. This volume includes twenty published articles and book reviews, as well as several talks given by Cochran"--P. iv.
Table of contents: title: Economics, the moral science: Economics as a moral science ; Ethics, values, and the affluent economy ; Academic freedom and tenure : Amarillo College ; The morality of affluence ; Why a social economics?; title: The need for government policy: Priority problems for the Seventies ; Reactions to a speech by Mr. Ira Corn on the future of business enterprise ; A question of assumptions ; The relevancy of institutional thought: The rules of the game ; Institutional theory and economic planning; title: Economic theory : from value-free to value-defensive to value-committed ; The epistemological foundations of American institutionalist thought : the role of assumptions in the formation of economic policy ; The instrumentalist foundation for institutionalist economic thought : human direction versus automatism ; The importance of economic education: Every man his own economist ; Goals for economic education ; Economics as a science; title: Books reviews.