Economics and Its Enemies

Two Centuries of Anti-Economics
2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4148-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 447 g

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises. Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic and Environmental anti-economics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, William Oliver

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements PART I The Damnation of Economics PART II The 'Wretched Procurers of Sedition' The 'Apostles of the Rich' The Dream of Nationhood The Totalitarian State and the 'Economist-Scoundrels' PART III The General Contagion of its Mechanic Philosophy The Moral Economy The Religion of Love and the Science of Wealth Crusaders and Consumers Rival Gospels of Wealth PART IV The 'Unconquerable Private Interests' 'The Infallible Dicta of the Holy Mother Church of Political Popery' 'Economists, Glory to You and the Jews!' A Postscript on Anti-Semitism The Notes so Puzzling Failure of Anti-Economics

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM OLIVER COLEMAN is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in the Origins of Economics.