Boundaries of 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. Winston, Gordon C. (Williams College Winston, Gordon C. Teichgraeber Winston
• Assisted by: 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521022507
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02250-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Murphy Institute Studies in Po; Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy