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Issues In Heterodox Economics

ISBN: 978-1-405-17961-4

February 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

304 pages

Description
Through contributions from leading authors, Issues in Heterodox Economics provides a critical analysis of the methodology of mainstream economics.

  • Challenges economists to abandon sterile formalism and develop new intellectual rigors to contribute to pressing contemporary issues
  • A series of cutting-edge articles provides a critical analysis of the dependence of mainstream economics on mathematical modelling and other methodologies
  • Topics discussed include sustainable development, worker control of firms, evolutionary growth theory, and more
  • Challenges economists to abandon sterile formalism and develop new intellectual rigors to contribute to pressing contemporary issues
About the Author
Donald A.R. George is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has published extensively on the economics of self-management, economic dynamics, and the economics of product reliability, and is joint founding editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys.
Features

  • A series of cutting-edge articles provides a critical analysis of the dependence of mainstream economics on mathematical modelling and other methodologies
  • Discusses a wide range of non-mainstream economic topics through articles from leading international authors
  • Topics discussed include sustainable development, worker control of firms, evolutionary growth theory, and more
  • Challenges economists to abandon sterile formalism and develop new intellectual rigors to contribute to pressing contemporary issues