A guide to what's wrong with economics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2004, reimpr. 2005
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| Series: | Anthem studies in political economy and globalization
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Table of Contents:
- The quarrlesome boundaries of economics
- Modern economics: the problem and a solution
- The pitfalls of mainstream economic reasoning (and teaching)
- Neoclassical economic theory
- Where do economies come from? The missing story
- Can economics start from the individual alone?
- Are you rational?
- Five pieces of advice for students studying microeconomics
- How mainstream economists model choice, versus how we behave, and why it matters
- Managerial economics: economics of management or economics for managers?
- Why do we have separate courses in "micro" and "macro" economics?
- The "natural" rate of unemployment
- How to look at economics critically: some suggestions
- Teaching economics as if ethics mattered
- Economics as ideology and the need for pluralism
- The "efficiency" illusion
- "There are none so blind-"
- Can mathematics be used successfully in economics?
- Can we expect anthing from game theory?
- Improbable, incorrect, or impossible: the persuasive but flawed mathematics of microeconomics
- The significance of the economics research paper
- Changing visions of humans' place in the world and the need for an ecological economics
- Ecological economics: the concept of scale and its relation to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth
- Whats wrong with GDP and growth? THe need for alternative indicators
- What is wrong with the "official history of capitalism"? with special reference to the debates on globalisation and economic development
- Should the study of transnational companies be part of the economics syllabus?
- Would a Latin American economics make sense?