Author: Roger Backhouse
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781782543084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of autobiographical essays by economists whose work is recognised in current economic thinking. They are based upon introductions to the Edward Elgar series, "Economists of the Twentieth Century". The volume focuses upon those who have experience in Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781858989600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of autobiographical essays by economists whose work is recognised in current economic thinking. They are based upon introductions to the Edward Elgar series, "Economists of the Twentieth Century". The volume focuses upon those who have experience in Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Author: Roger Backhouse
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781782543114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on leading economists who were born, or have spent the greater part of their lives, in America.
Author: Robert A. Cord
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-01-18
Total Pages: 949
ISBN-13: 113758274X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The London School of Economics (LSE) has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including Lionel Robbins and Bill Phillips, plus Nobel Prize winners, such as Friedrich Hayek, John Hicks and Christopher Pissarides, and how it remains a global force for the very best in teaching and research in economics. With original contributions from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists – especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought – with the first in-depth analysis of LSE economics.
Author: Peter Groenewegen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134417381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.
Author: Julia Köhn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 3319553518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that uncertainty was originally conceptualized both as an epistemic and an ontological problem. As a result of the economic professions’ attempt to become acknowledged as a science, the more problematic aspect of ontological uncertainty has been neglected and the subjective probability approach to uncertainty became dominant in economic theory. A careful analysis of ontological theories of uncertainty explains the blindness of modern economics to economic phenomena such as instability, slumps or excessive booms. Based on these findings the author develops a new approach that legitimizes a New Uncertainty Paradigm in economics.
Author: Marion Fourcade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-03-09
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1400833132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, Marion Fourcade traces the history of economics in each country from the late nineteenth century to the present, demonstrating how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to a distinct professional and disciplinary configuration. She argues that because the substance of political life varied from country to country, people's experience and understanding of the economy, and their political and intellectual battles over it, crystallized in different ways--through scientific and mercantile professionalism in the United States, public-minded elitism in Britain, and statist divisions in France. Fourcade moves past old debates about the relationship between culture and institutions in the production of expert knowledge to show that scientific and practical claims over the economy in these three societies arose from different elites with different intellectual orientations, institutional entanglements, and social purposes. Much more than a history of the economics profession, Economists and Societies is a revealing exploration of American, French, and British society and culture as seen through the lens of their respective economic institutions and the distinctive character of their economic experts.
Author: Roger E Backhouse
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2002-01-31
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0141937432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication Roger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the story of economic thinking from the ancient world to the present day, with a brand-new chapter on the twenty-first century and updates throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. Covering topics including globalisation, inequality, financial crises and the environment, Backhouse brings his breadth of expertise and a contemporary lens to this original and insightful exploration of economics, revealing how we got to where we are today.