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Keynes and the "Classics" : a study in language, epistemology and mistaken identities /
Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy? In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the history of economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Keynes and The 'Classics'; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology; The 'opposition' from the point of view of the marginalist 'revolutionaries'; The marginalist revolution; 2 Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology; In search of the neoclassical minimal unit; Equilibrium, exchange and perfection; The cosmological implications of perfection; 3 Strange Cosmological Bedfellows; Marshall and OCT: inverted symmetries; What's in a name?; The two Marshalls; Misunderstanding 'forces': an economics of 'resistances'
- 4 From Cosmology to LanguageThe conceptual costs of neoclassical economics' cosmologies; Irrealism or delusion?; 5 Keynes's Economics: What Kind of Revolution?; Isolating the minimal unit; Keynes's economics: a Galilean revolution; 6 Keynes and Speculation: Aristotle Revisited; Keynes and the rate of interest; Keynes and user costs; 7 More Substance and Transactions; Keynes and effective demand; Keynes and investment; 8 From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics; From cosmology to language; Economic actions and their symmetrically inverse counterparts; From language to theory
- ConclusionAppendix 1 Mirowski on science and economics; Appendix 2 Marx's economics: successes and failures; Notes; Bibliography; Index