Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137385482)

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Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World

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Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World

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Format: Hardcover
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What has gone wrong with economics? Economists now routinely devise highly sophisticated abstract models that score top marks for theoretical rigour but are clearly divorced from observable activities in the current economy. This creates an 'uneconomic economics', where models explain relationships in blackboard rather than real-life markets.

Author: M. Watson
ISBN-10: 1137385480
ISBN-13: 9781137385482
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2014
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By M. Watson
By M. Watson
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Matthew Watson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Since 2013 he is also an ESRC Professorial Fellow working on the project 'Rethinking the Market'. In his research he applies methodologies from the history of thought in order to understand how modern-day markets take their distinctive form.

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