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 Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xiii, 374 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Economics 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008022095 |
| ISBN | 9780415423229 (hb) |
| ISBN | 0415423228 (hb) |
| ISBN | 9780415423212 (pb) |
| ISBN | 041542321X (pb) |
| ISBN | 9780203887110 (eb) |
| ISBN | 0203887115 (eb) |