1st Edition

The Crisis in Economics

Edited By Edward Fullbrook Copyright 2003
236 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past... Read more
Introduction: a brief history of the post-autistic economics movement, PART I Documents, PART II Teaching, PART III Practice and ethics, Index

Biography

Edward Fullbrook

'I see the book as an excellent tool to introduce undergradate and graduate students to a critical understanding of the current state of economics.  This is why I have assigned the book on my graduate course in microeconomic theory.' - Frederic S. Lee, Journal of Economic Issues

"Every economics student and teacher as well as anyone interested in recent developments in intellectual and social trends should read The Crisis in Economics." Oeconomicus