Thornton From Economics to Political Economy

The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39209-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: New Political Economy

The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticised for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. Indeed, it has been criticised for too easily providing intellectual cover for economic and social arrangements that are unwise, unsustainable and unjust.

A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that contemporary economics lacks diversity in its methods, theories, epistemology and methodology. From Economics to Political Economy offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, but much attention is also given to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. Strategies examined include working from inside economics, politics and other social science departments, and in establishing dedicated sectors of political economy. Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide movement of students pushing for greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, and generally gain a fuller sense of the nature and direction of contemporary economics.

This book is suitable for those who study political economy, as well as economic theory and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thornton, Tim B.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

2. The sociology of scientific knowledge

3. The changing face of economics

4. Economic pluralism and economics as a science

5. Orthodoxy, heterodoxy and political economy

6. The global student movement for pluralism

7. Economics textbooks

8. Economics departments

9. Reform from within

10. Reform from without

11. Hybrid strategies

12. The market for economic knowledge

13. The three purposes of economics

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Tim Thornton has PhD in economics from La Trobe University and a Master of Arts (International Development) from Monash University. He is a lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia, with the Department of Politics and Philosophy and the Institute for Human Security and Social Change.