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From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless,...
Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
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From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge