From political economy to economics
Subtitle: method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
By: Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
Contributors: Fine, Ben
Series: Economics as social theory; Economics as social theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780415423229; 9780415423212; 9780203887110
Subjects: Economics; Neoclassical school of economics; History
Description: Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought; title: Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression; title: Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx; title: Not by theory alone: German historismus; title: Marginalism and the Methodenstreit; title: The Marshallian heritage; title: British historical economics and the birth of economic history; title: Thorstein Veblen: economics as a broad science; title: Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism; title: In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik; title: Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology; title: From Menger to Hayek: the (re)making of the Austrian School; title: From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory; title: Beyond the formalist revolution.