Suchergebnisse

Neoclassical economics : three identifying features / Christian Arnsperger and Yanis Varoufakis -- Pluralism, formalism and American economics / David Colander and Harry Landreth -- The construction of economics / Kyle Siler -- Paradigms and pluralism / Robert F. Garnett Jr -- Narrative pluralism / Edward Fullbrook -- Three arguments for pluralism / J.E. King -- Economics as ideology / Peter Söderbaum -- Metaphor and pluralism / Geoffrey Hodgson -- Explanatory pluralism / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Beyond talking the talk / Alan Freeman and Andrew Kliman -- In the economics classroom / Peter Earl -- Some practical aspects / Thomas Mayer -- Islamic economics : a case study / Mohamed Aslam Haneef.

Against: a priori theory. For: descriptively adequate computational modelingAn alternative framework for economics; The Russian defeat of economic orthodoxy; The tight links between post-Keynesian and feminist economics; Is the concept of economic growth autistic?; Ontology, epistemology, language and the practice of economics; Is the utility maximization principle necessary?; Quo vadis behavioral finance?; Psychological autism, institutional autism and economics; Index

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network. The PAE Network started in France and has spread first to Cambridge and then other parts of the world. The name derives from the fact that mainstream economics has been accused of institutional autism, ie. qualitative impairment of social interaction, failure to develop peer relationships and lack of emotional and social reciprocity. In short, economics has lost touch with reality and has become way too abstract. This book charts the impact the PAE Network has had so far and constitutes a manifesto for a different kind of economics - it features key contributions from all the major voices in heterodox economics including Tony Lawson, Deirdre McCloskey, Geoff Hodgson, Sheila Dow and Warren Samuels.