The Changing Face of Economics
Subtitle: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: December 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780472068777
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Interviews; Economic Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Economists; Business/Economics; Economics - General; Economics; Economics - Comparative; Political Science / General; Biography
First sentence: How did you get interested in economics?
Description: This book gives the reader a sense of the modern economics profession and how it is changing. The volume does so with a set of nine interviews with cutting edge economists, followed by interviews with two Nobel Prize winners, Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, reflecting on the changes that are occurring. What results is a clear picture of today's economics--and it is no longer standard neoclassical economics. The interviews and commentary together demonstrate that economics is currently undergoing a fundamental shift in method and is moving away from traditional neoclassical economics into a dynamic set of new methods and approaches. These new approaches include work in behavioral economics, experimental economics, evolutionary game theory and ecological approaches, complexity and nonlinear dynamics, methodological analysis, and agent-based modeling.