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11. The Philosophy of Keynes' Economics

    Probability, Uncertainty and Convention

    Edited by Sohei Mizuhara, Jochen Runde

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    John Maynard Keynes is undoubtedly the most influential Western economist of the twentieth century. His emphasis on the nature and role of uncertainty in economic thought is a dominant theme in his writings.This book brings together a wide array of experts on Keynes' thought such as Gay Tulip Meeks...

    Published May 28th 2003 by Routledge
12. Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics

    Edited by Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts.This rigorous and comprehensive book examines many of the central...

    Published April 2nd 2003 by Routledge
13. The Crisis in Economics

    Edited by Edward Fullbrook

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    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...

    Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge
14. Reorienting Economics

    By Tony Lawson

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can...

    Published February 19th 2003 by Routledge
15. The World of Consumption

    The Material and Cultural Revisited

    By Ben Fine, Ellen Leopold

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    In the opinion of many people the last decade saw the arrival of the `consumer society'. However, the response of social theory to consumerism has been barely appropriate to the scale of the changes. As an antidote to this, the authors propose the adoption of a new, more inclusive theoretical...

    Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge
16. The World of Consumption

    The Material and Cultural Revisited, 2nd Edition

    By Ben Fine, Ellen Leopold

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated,...

    Published March 20th 2002 by Routledge
17. Intersubjectivity in Economics

    Agents and Structures

    Edited by Edward Fullbrook

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view...

    Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
18. How Economics Forgot History

    The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

    By Geoffrey M Hodgson

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. He argues that you need different theories to analyze different economic phenomena...

    Published August 22nd 2001 by Routledge
19. The Values of Economics

    An Aristotelian Perspective

    By Irene van Staveren

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    In his Ethics, Aristotle argued that human beings try to further a variety of values by balancing them, stating that people try to find a middle road between excess and deficiency. The author develops and applies this idea to the values of economics, arguing that in the economy; freedom, justice...

    Published June 6th 2001 by Routledge
20. Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge

    Edited by Jack Amariglio, Stephen E Cullenberg, David F Ruccio

    Series: Economics as Social Theory

    Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge.This ground-breaking volume brings together...

    Published May 16th 2001 by Routledge