| A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics Contributor(s): Fullbrook, Edward (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843311488 ISBN-13: 9781843311485 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2004 Annotation: From the 1960s onward, neoclassical economists have increasingly managed to block the employment of non-neoclassical economists, narrow the economics curriculum offered by universities to students, and made their theory increasingly irrelevant to understanding economic reality. Now, they are even banishing economic history and the history of economic thought from the curriculum. Why has this tragedy happened? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 330 |
| LCCN: 2005434231 |
| Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.26" W x 9.14" (1.26 lbs) 323 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During a time of accelerating momentum for radical change in the study of economics, 'A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics' comprehensively re-examines the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and considers a number of alternative formulations. In it, a distinguished list of non-neoclassical economists provide a study of some of the many worldly and logical gaps in neoclassical economics, its hidden ideological agendas, disregard for the environment, habitual misuse of mathematics and statistics, inability to address the major issues of economic globalization, its ethical cynicism concerning poverty, racism and sexism and its misrepresentation of economic history. In clear and engaging prose, 'A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics' shows how interesting, relevant and exciting economics can be when it is pursued not as a defence of an antiquated and close-minded system of belief, but as a no-holds-barred inquiry looking for real-world truths. |