A Primer on Heterodox Economics

ISBN: 978-0-415-57589-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Ingrid Rima’s history of economic thought textbook, Development of Economic Analysis has introduced several generations of students to the philosophy behind the growth of economics as a discipline. The subject is notable for having spawned a number of competing schools of thought and although the free market orthodoxy of neoclassical economics has come to hold sway in recent times, there remain an array of critical undercurrents.

In this new introduction to competing economic paradigms, Rima charts the development of these varying schools of thought, their current status, and future prospects. There is little doubt that the events of the second decade of the twentieth century – financial meltdown, the credit crunch and the sub prime crisis – have provided fertile ground for less orthodox ways of thinking. Hence, a range of methodologies – from Austrian to Feminist; from Post Keynesian to Institutionalist – have begun to make their presence felt again – and there has been a considerable heating up of the debates.

Rima analyzes the current state of play and stresses the differences between the varying schools, as well as attempts to bring them together under the banner of pluralism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rima, Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Heterodoxy before Keynes’ General Theory 1. An Historical Overview of Classical Heterodoxy in Economics 2. From Keynes’ General Theory to the neo-Walrasian Synthesis 3. How Econometrics became the Sister Science of Economics 4. Competing Economic Paradigms Part II Post-Marshallian Heterodoxy 5. Modern Austrian Analysis; "New" Institutionalism and Public Choice 6. Institutionalism and Evolutionary Economics 7. Institutional Reform and China’s Transition from the Cultural Revolution Part III ICAPE 8. Post Keynesian Economics 9. Cambridge Post Keynesian Economics 10. The New Left and Feminism A Postscript: From Heterodoxy to Pluralism to the Revival of Political Economy

Über Autor(innen)

Ingrid Rima is Professor of Economics at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.