The delusions of economics
Subtitle: the misguided certainties of a hazardous science
By: Gilbert Rist ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781848139220; 9781848139237
Subjects: Economics; Economic development
Work titles: Économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges
Description: The Delusions of Economics presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics. Rather than entering into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Gilbert Rist explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented' and that helped to construct it as a science. Rist demonstrates how these presuppositions are either obsolete or just plain wrong, and that traditional economics is largely based on irrational convictions.
Notes: "Originally published in French in 2010 under the title L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges by Presses de Sciences Po"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-203) and index.