Economics as a social science

An approach to nonaustic theory

Andrew M. Kamarck

224 pages, parution le 13/06/2002

Ajouter à une liste

Indisponible

Résumé

Economics as a Social Science: An Approach to Nonautistic Theory, a highly readable critique of economic theory based on a wide range of research, endeavors to restore economics to its proper role as a social science. Contrary to conventional economic theory, which assumes that people have no free will, this book instead bases economics on the realistic assumptions that human beings can choose; that we are complex beings affected by emotion, custom, habit, and reason; and that our behavior varies with different circumstances and times. It embraces the findings of history, psychology, and other social sciences, as well as the insights from great literature on human behavior, rejecting the rigid mathematical axioms that define how economics is understood and practiced today.

Limitations of economics
Self-interest
Reason and rationality
Ethic and economics
Markets
Change and growth
Predators and parasites
Summing up
Notes

L'auteur - Andrew M. Kamarck

Andrew M. Kamarck is the retired Director of the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank and the founding Director of the Bank's economics complex. Prior to World War 11 he worked in the International Section of the Federal Reserve Board and with the Secretary of the Treasury. During the war Kamarck was posted to the Allied Control Commission for Italy, where he supervised the Banca d'ltalia, until he was assigned as Chief of the U.S. Financial Intelligence in Germany in 1944-
Back at the Treasury in 1946, Kamarck chaired the Staff Committee for the cabinet-level National Advisory Council for International Monetary and Financial Problems, which set the financial, fiscal, foreign exchange, and monetary policy guidelines for the Marshall Plan. Over the next twenty years he held the positions of U.S. Treasury Representative in Italy; World Bank Economic Adviser on Europe, Australasia, and Africa; Regents Professor at UCLA; and Research Associate at the Harvard Center of International Affairs; then returning to the World Bank as Director of the Economic Development Institute. Over his long and varied career, he has authored or coaufhored many books on a wide range of economic subjects.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The University of Michigan Press
Auteur(s)	Andrew M. Kamarck
Parution	13/06/2002
Nb. de pages	224
Format	16 x 23,8
Couverture	Relié
Poids	523g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780472112432