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100 1 _aSkidelsky, Robert,
_cBaron Skidelsky,
_d1939-
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aWhat's wrong with economics? :
_ba primer for the perplexed /
_cRobert Skidelsky.
246 3 _aWhat is wrong with economics?
264 1 _aNew Haven ;
_aLondon :
_bYale University Press,
_c2020.
300 _axvii, 223 pages :
_billustrations (black and white)
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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386 _aMen
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505 0 _aWhy methodology? -- The basics : wants and means -- Economic growth -- Equilibrium -- Models and laws -- Economic psychology -- Sociology and economics -- Institutional economics --Economics and power -- Why study the history of economic thought? -- Economic history -- Ethics and economics -- Retreat from omniscience -- The future of economics.
520 _aA passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time. This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the advice of flawed economic models. Noted economic thinker Robert Skidelsky explains the circumstances that have brought about this constriction and proposes an approach to economics which includes philosophy, history, sociology, and politics. Skidelsky's clearly written and compelling critique takes aim at the way that economics is taught in today's universities, where a focus on modelling leaves students ill-equipped to grapple with what is important and true about human life. He argues for a return to the ideal set out by John Maynard Keynes that the economist must be a "mathematician, historian, statesman, [and] philosopher" in equal measure. -- Provided by publisher.
590 _aGift: Lord Skidelsky.
650 0 _aEconomics.
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