The struggle over the soul of economics : institutionalist and neoclassical economists in America between the wars /
This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very ""soul"" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematica...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74964 |
| Summary: | This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very ""soul"" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematically derived models? And what happened to other approaches to the discipline that were considered to be scientifically viable less than fifty years ago? Between the two world wars there were two well-accepted schools of thought in economics: the ""neoclassical, "" which emerged in the last third of the nineteenth cent |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691034192 9780691034195 140081393X 9781400813933 1282753398 9781282753396 9786612753398 6612753390 1400822521 9781400822522 |