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  • av Tony Lawson
    1 215 - 2 249,-

    This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom.

  • av John Watkins
    529 - 1 899,-

    Consumer capitalism arose with the second-industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • - Agents and Structures
     
    1 029,-

    A team of expert international contributors explore the structures and effects of interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity.

  • - Gender and the Structures of Constraint
    av Nancy Folbre
    939 - 2 099

    A fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class.

  • - Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History
    av Geoffrey M. Hodgson
    625 - 2 509

    This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario.

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    2 509

    This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Miroswki on a diverse range of topics.

  • - How to Get in the Conversation
    av Arjo (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) Klamer & Rotterdam
    959 - 2 379

    Shows that economics is as much about how people interact as it is about the models, the mathematics, the econometrics, the theories and the ideas that come from the aggregate of economics literature. This book views the subject as a collection of conversations, and examines fundamental disagreements over the nature and purpose of the discipline.

  • - Ethics, Knowledge and Politics
    av John O'Neill
    955 - 2 375

    The author draws on considerable research in this area to provide an overdue critical evaluation of the limits of the market, and future prospects for non-market socialism.

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    2 375

    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, Geoff Hodgson, and Sheila Dow.

  • - New Economics of Knowledge
     
    955,-

    This volume rethinks the classic question of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Drawing from a range of perspectives it casts fresh light on the relationship between the producers and consumers of economic knowledge.

  • - An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics
    av Professor Jack J. Vromen
    1 029 - 2 509

    The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. The book looks at the differences and similarities between the three main approaches.

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    1 015

    The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way

  • av Tony Lawson
    1 105 - 2 509

    There is an increasingly widespread belief, both within and outside the discipline, that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. This work traces this irrelevance to the failure of economists to match their methods with their subject.

  • - The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
    av Geoffrey M. Hodgson
    925 - 3 105

    Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you need different theories and that historical contexts must be taken into account.

  • - Essays in Constitutional Political Economy
    av Viktor J. Vanberg
    939 - 2 509

    Shows how the rules and institutions which are the basis of co-operation in society can be systematically explained. This book offers an analysis which cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries between such fields as economics, law, moral philosophy, sociology and political science.

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    1 029,-

    Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broader notions of rationality offered by institutional economics are discussed.

  • - His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism
    av James (University of Massachusetts Amherst & USA) Crotty
    625 - 2 035,-

  • av Geoffrey M. Hodgson
    845 - 2 509

    Charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics.

  • - Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
    av Galway) Boylan, Paschal (National University of Ireland, Galway) O'Gorman & m.fl.
    1 349 - 2 375

    Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the debate on economic methodology. They strike a reasonable middle ground between the extremes of scientific realism and the rhetoric of economics.

  • av USA) Storr & Virgil (George Mason University
    765 - 1 835

  • - From Hubris to Disgrace
     
    879

    Since 2008 the financial sector has been the subject of extensive criticism. Much of this criticism has focussed on the morality the actors involved in the crisis and its extended aftermath. This book analyses the key moral and political philosophical issues of the crisis and relates them to the political economy of finance. It also examines to what extent the financial sector can or should be reformed.

  • - From Hubris to Disgrace
     
    2 509

    Since 2008 the financial sector has been the subject of extensive criticism. Much of this criticism has focussed on the morality the actors involved in the crisis and its extended aftermath. This book analyses the key moral and political philosophical issues of the crisis and relates them to the political economy of finance. It also examines to what extent the financial sector can or should be reformed.

  • av Richard Wolff & Stephen A. Resnick
    1 215 - 2 375

    In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, this book confronts the basic incompatibilities among the versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism and post-modernism and even by some of Marxism's great theorists.

  • - How Evolution, Psychology and Biology Have Shaped the Economy
    av Rojhat (Columbia College Chicago & USA) Avsar
    619 - 2 089

  • - Its Challenge to Development Studies
    av Adam (Victoria University & Australia) Fforde
    879 - 2 619

  • - The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
    av Ben Fine & Dimitris Milonakis
    819 - 2 689

    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? This book deals with these questions. It addresses the shifting boundaries between economics and other social sciences as seen from the confines of the dismal science, with some reflection on the responses to the economic imperialists by other disciplines.

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    2 509

    While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists.

  • - A Historical Introduction
    av Harro (Utrecht School of Economics & the Netherlands) Maas
    919 - 2 259

  • - Issues in Social Ontology
    av Tony (University of Cambridge & UK) Lawson
    625 - 2 089

  • - Perspectives from Economic and Social Theory
    av William A. (University of York & UK) Jackson
    565 - 1 829

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