The Boundaries of Economics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521344500)

The essays in this book explore some of the important areas of the long boundary between economics and intellectually adjacent disciplines, by placing the neoclassical paradigm in the broader context of these other social sciences. Written by economists and philosophers, these papers examine the themes that complicate the conventional economist's view of the world and thereby provide a notably more complex (and humane) subject than the traditional homo economicus. In analyzing these "imperialist forays" from the field and "territorial invasions" upon it, the contributors seek to understand what it is that separates economics from the other kinds of inquiry and to expound upon the actual limits of economics. They also look at the shifts and changes in the boundaries of what is considered economics.

Author: Gordon C. Winston
ISBN-10: 0521344506
ISBN-13: 9780521344500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1988
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d