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From Economics to Political Economy: The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics book cover

1st Edition

From Economics to Political Economy The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics

By Tim B. Thornton Copyright 2017
228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. 　 A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that... Read more

Introduction

2. The sociology of scientific knowledge

3. The changing face of economics

4. Economic pluralism and economics as a science

5. Orthodoxy, heterodoxy and political economy

6. The global student movement for pluralism

7. Economics textbooks

8. Economics departments

9. Reform from within

10. Reform from without

11. Hybrid strategies

12. The market for economic knowledge

13. The three purposes of economics

Biography

Tim B. Thornton is a lecturer in　the Department of Politics and Philosophy, and the Institute of Human Security and Social Change　at La Trobe University, Australia, where he teaches political economy and convenes La Trobe's Bachelor of　Politics, Philosophy and Economics and Master of International Development degrees.　Tim has a　PhD in economics from La Trobe University and a Master of Arts (International Development) from Monash University, Australia. He has　published regularly on the topic of pluralism in economics, the　nature and direction of contemporary economics and the relationship between economics and other social sciences.　

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