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Author Milonakis, Dimitris.

Title From political economy to economics : method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory / Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Economics as social theory
Economics as social theory.
Summary Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.
Contents Introduction -- Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought -- Mill's concilation, Marx's transgression -- Political economy as history : Smith, Ricardo, Marx -- Not by theory alone : German historismus -- Marginalism and the Methodenstreit -- The Marshallian heritage -- British historical economics and the birth of economic history -- Thorstein Veblen : economics as a broad science -- Commons, Mitchell, Ayres and the fin de siecle of American institionalism -- In the slipstream of marginalism : Weber, Schumpeter and Sozialokonomik -- Positivism and the separation of economics from sociology -- From Menger to Hayek : the (re)making of the Austrian School -- From Keyes to general equilibrium: short- and long-run revolutions in economic theory -- Beyond the formalist revolution.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and indexes.
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Subject Neoclassical school of economics -- History.
Neoclassical school of economics.
History.
Economics -- History.
Economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Fine, Ben, author.
Other Form: Print version: Milonakis, Dimitris. From political economy to economics. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2009 9780415423229 0415423228 (DLC) 2008022095 (OCoLC)230729555
ISBN 9780203887110 (electronic book)
0203887115 (electronic book)
0415423228 (Cloth)
9780415423229
9780415423212
041542321X