Economics Confronts the EconomyEdward Elgar, 2006 - 396 páginas Economics Confronts the Economy is a challenging and unorthodox look at contemporary economic analysis. Philip Klein presents a highly reasoned and yet personal view of the state of economics today. While his views may be contentious to some, it is an accessible book that will provoke discussion and debate to a wide readership. Professor Klein begins with the assumption that the basic function of economic theory is to provide a sound guide for public policy in assisting society in defining what it means by 'economic progress'. In the words of Thorstein Veblen it involves economic activity as explicit steps to be taken at any given time to enable the economy to play its most effective role in 'enhancing human life'. The book argues that modern mainstream economics is failing in this task in terms of what it teaches young economists, what it contributes to public policy debates and what it has done to the field of economics. This book will have a wide audience throughout the many and varied fields of economics including heterodox economics, micro- and macroeconomics, history of economic thought and economic policy. |
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... graduate schools considered in far greater detail in Chapter 7. We have summarized some of the more important changes in Table 3.1 . The table displays some of the essential features of the quantification revolution and its impact on ...
... graduate theory courses are designed and implemented by curriculum committees . So it is natural , I suppose , to ask , ' What do our graduate programs in economics in American universities see as their chief objective ? What is ...
... graduate programs will find the students intimately involved with the great books of the field . English graduate students read Shakespeare , or Chaucer , or Victorian novels , etc. Anthropologists read Meade and William Grant Sumner ...
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The unchanging focus of modern economics | 8 |
List of Figures | 23 |
do we get what we want | 41 |
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