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

Author/creator Milonakis, Dimitris
Other author Fine, Ben.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxiii, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesEconomics as social theory
Economics as social theory. ^A351711
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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes.
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