Boundaries of Economics

Klappentext These essays attempt to place neoclassical economic theory! especially conventional textbook micro-economic theory! in the broader context of other social sciences and modern economics. Zusammenfassung This volume examines themes that complicate the conventional economist's view of the world and thereby provide for a notably more complex! and humane! subject of study than the traditional Homo economicus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction Gordon C. Winston; 2. Towards a rhetoric of economics Donald N. McCloskey; 3. Three problems with the treatment of time in economics: perspectives, repetitiveness and time units Gordon C. Winston; 4. Hayek, the Scottish school and contemporary economics John Gray; 5. Reuniting economics and philosophy Michael S. McPherson; 6. Economic methodology and philosophy of science Daniel M. Hausman; Index.

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• Authors: Gordon C. (Williams College Winston, Gordon C. Teichgraeber Winston
• Assisted by: Winston Gordon C. (Editor), Richard F. Teichgraeber (Editor), Richard F. III Teichgraeber (Editor), Richard F. Teichgraeber III (Editor), Gordon C. Winston (Editor), Winston Gordon C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1988
• EAN: 9780521344500
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34450-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Murphy Institute Studies in Po; Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy