Deductive irrationality : a commonsense critique of economic rationalism
"This book is a collection of essays that examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors of seminal theories in modern economic thought. The main theme linking all of the chapters together is that economics is a product of modern rationalism and shares with that rationalism the belief that the only real knowledge is scientific knowledge. Derived from a scientific method modeled on mathematics, this technique gives both modern political science and modern economics their abstract character."--BOOK JACKET
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1 online resource (vi, 284 p.)
9781461633297, 146163329X
609245654
Print version:
Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 1 Introduction Chapter 3 2 John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and the Development of Political Economy Chapter 4 3 Adam Smith and the Invention of Economic Science Chapter 5 4 Ethical and Methodological Foundations of Marshall's Economics Chapter 6 5 Keynes's Return to Reality: The General Theory of Employment Chapter 7 6 Rational Expectations Economics as the New Classical Economics Chapter 8 7 Friedrich A. Hayek's Economic Theory of Law Chapter 9 8 The Theory of Economic Development as Presented by Gunnar Myrdal Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Appendix Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010