Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 294 g
Reihe: Routledge Classics
Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 294 g
Reihe: Routledge Classics
ISBN: 978-0-367-54738-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
In Economic Philosophy Robinson looks behind the curtain of economics to reveal a constant battle between economics as a science and economics as ideology, which she argued was integral to economics. In her customary vivid and pellucid style, she criticizes early economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and neo-classical economists Alfred Marshall, Stanley Jevons and Leon Walras, over the question of value. She shows that what they respectively considered to be the generators of value - labour-time, marginal utility or preferences - are not scientific but ‘metaphysical’, and that it is frequently in ideology, not science, that we find the reason for the rejection of economic theories. She also weighs up the implications of the Keynesian revolution in economics, particularly whether Keynes’s theories are applicable to developing economies. Robinson concludes with a prophetic lesson that resonates in today’s turbulent and unequal economy: that the task of the economist is to combat the idea that the only values that count are those that can be measured in terms of money.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Sheila Dow.
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- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Sheila Dow 1. Metaphysics, Morals and Science 2. The Classics: Value 3. The Neo-Classics: Utility 4. The Keynesian Revolution 5. Development and Under-Development 6. What are the Rules of the Game? Index