TY - GEN T1 - The struggle over the soul of economics : institutionalist and neoclassical economists in America between the wars A1 - Yonay, Yuval P., 1958- LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 1998 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm70746928 AB - 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 OP - 290 CN - HB99.5 .Y66 1998eb SN - 0691034192 SN - 9780691034195 SN - 140081393X SN - 9781400813933 SN - 1282753398 SN - 9781282753396 SN - 9786612753398 SN - 6612753390 SN - 1400822521 SN - 9781400822522 KW - Institutional economics : History : 20th century. KW - Neoclassical school of economics : History : 20th century. KW - Economics : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Institutionnalisme : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - École néoclassique d'économie politique : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Économie politique : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Economics : Theory. KW - Economics KW - Institutional economics KW - Neoclassical school of economics KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -