1st Edition

Microeconomic Theory A Heterodox Approach

By Frederic S. Lee, Tae-Hee Jo Copyright 2018
274 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox economic theory that explains the economy as the social provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and their reproduction and recurrence, their integration qua interdependency by non-market and market arrangements and institutions, and how the system... Read more

List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Notations and abbreviations, Chapter 1 The making of heterodox microeconomics, Chapter 2 Structure, agency, and modeling the economy, Chapter 3 The business enterprise: structures, Chapter 4 The business enterprise: agency and causal mechanisms, Chapter 5 Markets and demand for the social product, Chapter 6 Competition, the market price, and market governance, Chapter 7 Microeconomics and the social provisioning process, Chapter 8 The role of microeconomics in heterodox economics: a view of a heterodox micro theorist, Appendix 1 Heterodox Microeconomics Course Syllabus, Appendix 2 Narrative-Qualitative-Analytical Problem Sets, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Frederic S. Lee was Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA until he died in 2014. He played an essential role in developing heterodox microeconomic theory and in building a global community of heterodox economists over his thirty-year professional career. He was the founding editor of Heterodox Economics Newsletter (2004–2009) and the editor of American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2009–2013). Lee published over 172 journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Post Keynesian Price Theory (1998), A History of Heterodox Economics (2009), and Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (2016).

Tae-Hee Jo is Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York – Buffalo State, USA.