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Reassessing the Paradigm of Economics
Bringing Positive Economics Back into the Normative Framework
Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
When President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher adopted the neoliberal doctrine as the paradigm of economics, there was no evidence that the move would have been successful, but thirty years on, the recurrent crises that culminated in 2008 suggest a serious mis-match between expectations and...
Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Equilibrium in Economics
Scope and Limits
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence, uniqueness, and stability of equilibrium in economic processes. Since then, the concept has come under sustained attack from all points of the heterodox...
Published January 28th 2009 by Routledge