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The making of the economy : a phenomenology of economic science /

How did modern man come to believe in the object of the economy? What hopes made us accept scientific authority about this illusive thing? What kinds of persons were attracted by objective knowledge in economic discourse? And how does this knowledge guide our economic life? The Making of the Economy...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Düppe, Till, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; Part I: Philosophy; Chapter 1: Science and the Life-World; Chapter 2: Formalism and How Economists Forgot the Life-World; Chapter 3: Structuralism and How Economists Made the Economy; Part II: History; Chapter 4: The Pre-History of the Economy: The Oikonomia; Chapter 5: The Urstiftung of the Economy in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 6: The Battles for the Economy since 1848; Chapter 7: The Diminishing Weight of Meaning of the Economy during the Socialist Calculation Debate; Chapter 8: The Secret Engineering of the Free Economy during the Cold War.
  • Chapter 9: The Waning of the Economy TodayConclusions; References; Index.