TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skidelsky,Robert
TI  - What's Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed
SN  - 9780300252767
AV  - HB72 .S553 2020
U1  - 330 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Economics-Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time
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