Speaking of Economics

Arjo Klamer

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Making sense of economists and their world in a persuasive and entertaining style, Arjo Klamer, the author of a number of influential books including ... Lees meer

Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking reje... Lees meer

What Is Neoclassical Economics?

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism. This is largely due to highly unrealistic assumptions underpin... Lees meer

Economic Methodology

Harro Maas

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline's disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated. ... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Origins of Markets

Rojhat Avşar

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticated ... Lees meer

Understanding Development Economics

Adam Fforde

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development ... Lees meer

Introducing Money

Mark Peacock

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of 'economic' approaches, for ... Lees meer

New Departures in Marxian Theory

Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of M... Lees meer

Keynes Against Capitalism

James Crotty

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Keynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived. It is almost universally believed that Keynes wrote his magnum opus, Th... Lees meer

The Origins and Evolution of Consumer Capitalism

John P Watkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Consumer capitalism arose with the second industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late ninet... Lees meer

Essays on

Tony Lawson

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How ... Lees meer

New Directions in Economic Methodology

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should... Lees meer

Markets, Deliberation and Environment

John O'Neill

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclass... Lees meer

Economic Evolution

Jack J Vromen

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic c... Lees meer

The World of Consumption

Ben Fine

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this... Lees meer

Postcolonialism Meets Economics

S Charusheela, Eiman Zein-Elabdin

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge an... Lees meer

What Do Economists Know?

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• A provocatively rethink of the questions of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Academic economists in the twentieth century have presumed t... Lees meer

The Market

John O'Neill

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Following the failure of 'really existing socialism' in Eastern Europe and Asia, the market is now generally perceived, by Left and Right, to be supre... Lees meer

The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Geoffrey M Hodgson

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall ... Lees meer

A History of Financial Crises

Cihan Bilginsoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• "Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades. It is no longer possible to dismiss or ignore them... Lees meer

Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy

Clifford S Poirot

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theor... Lees meer

The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Geoffrey M Hodgson

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall ... Lees meer

The Nature of Social Reality

Tony Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation o... Lees meer

The Crisis in Economics

• Paperback | Engels | Economics as Social Theory
• Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its tec... Lees meer