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From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory / Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Economics as social theoryPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: xiii, 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415423212 (pbk.)
  • 041542321X (pbk.)
  • 9780415423229 (hbk.)
  • 0415423228 (hbk.)
  • 9780203887110 (ebk.)
  • 0203887115 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.157 MIL 23 008180
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought -- Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression -- Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx -- Not by theory alone: German historismus -- Marginalism and the Methodenstreit -- The Marshallian heritage -- British historical economics and the birth of economic history -- Thorstein Veblen: economics as a broad science -- Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism -- In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik -- Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology -- From Menger to Hayek: the (re)making of the Austrian School -- From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory -- Beyond the formalist revolution.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes.

Introduction -- Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought -- Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression -- Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx -- Not by theory alone: German historismus -- Marginalism and the Methodenstreit -- The Marshallian heritage -- British historical economics and the birth of economic history -- Thorstein Veblen: economics as a broad science -- Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism -- In the slipstream of marginalism: Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik -- Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology -- From Menger to Hayek: the (re)making of the Austrian School -- From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory -- Beyond the formalist revolution.

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.

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