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What's Wrong with Economics? : (Record no. 16444)

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International Standard Book Number 9780300252767
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780300249873
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC6125959
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL6125959
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System control number (OCoLC)1143648407
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Classification number HB72
Item number .S553 2020
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Skidelsky, Robert.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title What's Wrong with Economics? :
Remainder of title A Primer for the Perplexed.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New Haven :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Yale University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2020.
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Extent 1 online resource (243 pages)
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Formatted contents note 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?.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc. A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time.
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economics-Philosophy.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Skidelsky, Robert
Title What's Wrong with Economics?
Place, publisher, and date of publication New Haven : Yale University Press,c2020
International Standard Book Number 9780300249873
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6125959">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6125959</a>
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