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BOOK (PRINT)
Title A guide to what's wrong with economics / edited by Edward Fullbrook
Published London : Anthem Press, 2004
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 BASEMENT STORAGE - GFA  HB171 .G85 2004  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Anthem studies in political economy and globalization
Anthem studies in political economy and globalization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-320) and index
Portion Title What's wrong with economics
Subject Economics
Academic Subj. Economics
Alternate Author Fullbrook, Edward
ISBN 1843311488 paperback
Table of Contents
 Introduction : broadband versus narrowband economics / Edward Fullbrook1
1quarrlesome boundaries of economics / Hugh Stretton9
2Modern economics : the problem and a solution / Tony Lawson21
3pitfalls of mainstream economic reasoning (and teaching) / Michael A. Bernstein33
4Neoclassical economic theory : a special and not a general case / Paul Ormerod41
5Where do economics come from? : the missing story / Anne Mayhew47
6Can economics start from the individual alone? / Geoffrey M. Hodgson57
7Are you rational? / Edward Fullbrook71
8Five pieces of advice for students studying microeconomics / Emmanuelle Benicourt84
9How mainstream economists model choice, versus how we behave, and why it matters / Peter E. Earl95
10Managerial economics : economics of management or economics for managers? / Sashi Sivramkrishna106
11Why do we have separate courses in 'micro' and 'macro' economics? / Ozgur Gun115
12'natural' rate of unemployment / James G. Devine126
13How to look at economics critically : some suggestions / Renato Di Ruzza, Joseph Halevi133
14Teaching economics as if ethics mattered / Charles K. Wilber147
15Economics as ideology and the need for pluralism / Peter Soderbaum158
16'efficiency' illusion / Richard Wolff169
17'There are none so blind ...' / Susan F. Feiner176
18Can mathematics be used successfully in economics? / Donald Gillies187
19Can we expect anything from game theory? / Bernard Guerrien198
20Improbable, incorrect or impossible : the persuasive but flawed mathematics of microeconomics / Steve Keen209
21significance of the economics research paper / Stephen T. Ziliak223
22Changing visions of humans' place in the world and the need for an ecological economics / Robert Costanza237
23Ecological economics : the concept of scale and its relation to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth / Herman E. Daly247
24What's wrong with GDP and growth? : the need for alternative indicators / Jean Gadrey262
25What is wrong with the 'official history of capitalism'? : with special reference to the debates on globalisation and economic development / Ha-Joon Chang279
26Should the study of transnational companies be part of the economics syllabus? / Grazia Ietto-Gillies289
27Would a Latin American economics make sense? / Ana Maria Bianchi299



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