What's Wrong with Economics? : A Primer for the Perplexed.
Skidelsky, Robert.
What's Wrong with Economics? : A Primer for the Perplexed. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1 WHY METHODOLOGY? -- Open and closed systems -- The method of economics -- 2 THE BASICS: WANTS AND MEANS -- Wants -- Means -- 3 ECONOMIC GROWTH -- Population -- Investment -- Trade -- The role of the state -- Development economics -- Structuralism -- Washington Consensus -- Who is right? -- 4 EQUILIBRIUM -- Equilibrium -- Self-interest as economics' gravity equivalent -- Frictions -- Questions about equilibrium -- 5 MODELS AND LAWS -- Modelling -- The facts of the matter -- Econometrics -- Modelling complexity -- Platonic modelling -- Science versus rhetoric -- So is economics a science? -- 6 ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- The behaviour of homo economicus -- Homo economicus in action -- Is it rational? -- Behavioural economics -- Thinking fast and slow -- 7 SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS -- Can sociology help economics? -- The social and the individual -- The sociological perspective -- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- The spirit of capitalism -- Are markets natural to man? -- Reconciliation -- 8 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS -- 'Old' institutionalism -- 'Neoclassical' institutionalism -- 9 ECONOMICS AND POWER -- Forms of power -- The legitimacy of power -- How do economists treat power? -- The role of economics in the power system -- The Marxist charge against bourgeois economics -- 10 WHY STUDY THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT? -- Methodological debates -- Paradigms and research programmes -- 11 ECONOMIC HISTORY -- History as a source of statistics -- Can economics improve history? -- Cycles' -- 'Stages of development' - Kicking Away the Ladder -- 12 ETHICS AND ECONOMICS -- The just price -- Property as stewardship -- The costs of progress -- The 'growth of the cake [became] the object of true religion' (Keynes) -- How can ethics help economics?. 13 RETREAT FROM OMNISCIENCE -- Epistemology: risk and uncertainty -- Ontology: what exists -- A better map -- 14 THE FUTURE OF ECONOMICS -- The political purpose of economics -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time.
9780300252767
Economics-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
HB72 / .S553 2020
330
What's Wrong with Economics? : A Primer for the Perplexed. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1 WHY METHODOLOGY? -- Open and closed systems -- The method of economics -- 2 THE BASICS: WANTS AND MEANS -- Wants -- Means -- 3 ECONOMIC GROWTH -- Population -- Investment -- Trade -- The role of the state -- Development economics -- Structuralism -- Washington Consensus -- Who is right? -- 4 EQUILIBRIUM -- Equilibrium -- Self-interest as economics' gravity equivalent -- Frictions -- Questions about equilibrium -- 5 MODELS AND LAWS -- Modelling -- The facts of the matter -- Econometrics -- Modelling complexity -- Platonic modelling -- Science versus rhetoric -- So is economics a science? -- 6 ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- The behaviour of homo economicus -- Homo economicus in action -- Is it rational? -- Behavioural economics -- Thinking fast and slow -- 7 SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS -- Can sociology help economics? -- The social and the individual -- The sociological perspective -- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- The spirit of capitalism -- Are markets natural to man? -- Reconciliation -- 8 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS -- 'Old' institutionalism -- 'Neoclassical' institutionalism -- 9 ECONOMICS AND POWER -- Forms of power -- The legitimacy of power -- How do economists treat power? -- The role of economics in the power system -- The Marxist charge against bourgeois economics -- 10 WHY STUDY THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT? -- Methodological debates -- Paradigms and research programmes -- 11 ECONOMIC HISTORY -- History as a source of statistics -- Can economics improve history? -- Cycles' -- 'Stages of development' - Kicking Away the Ladder -- 12 ETHICS AND ECONOMICS -- The just price -- Property as stewardship -- The costs of progress -- The 'growth of the cake [became] the object of true religion' (Keynes) -- How can ethics help economics?. 13 RETREAT FROM OMNISCIENCE -- Epistemology: risk and uncertainty -- Ontology: what exists -- A better map -- 14 THE FUTURE OF ECONOMICS -- The political purpose of economics -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time.
9780300252767
Economics-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
HB72 / .S553 2020
330