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The Struggle over the Soul of Economics : Institutionalist and Neoclassical Economists in America between the Wars /
This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very ""soul"" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematica...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very ""soul"" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematically derived models? And what happened to other approaches to the discipline that were considered to be scientifically viable less than fifty years ago? Between the two world wars there were two well-accepted schools of thought in economics: the ""neoclassical, "" which emerged in the last third of the nineteenth cent |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400822522 |