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Reorienting Economics
Contributor(s): Lawson, Tony (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415253365     ISBN-13: 9780415253369
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $80.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2003
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This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can move away from the bafflingly intransigent belief that economics is at its core reliant upon mathematical modelling. This maths-envy is "the" reason why economics is in a state of such disarray.

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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economics - Theory
Dewey: 330.1
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.24" W x 9.22" L (1.37 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Contemporary economics is characterized by a mismatch between its methods of analysis and the nature of the world it seeks to interpret. Despite regular economic crises and ongoing critique of the discipline, the drift from political economy into applied mathematics appears to continue unabated. In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality.

In analyzing mainstream economists' misplaced universality, the author places ontology at the heart of a reoriented future in which economics is integrated within the wider human and social sciences.
 
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