Economics and its Enemies
Author | : William Oliver Coleman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002-10-23 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781403914354 |
ISBN-10 | : 1403914354 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Download or read book Economics and its Enemies written by William Oliver Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises. Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic and Environmental anti-economics.