A MODERN GUIDE TO ECONOMIC THOUGHT: An Introduction to Comparative Schools of Thought in Economics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185278640X ISBN 13: 9781852786403

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992

Synopsis

This book offers an introduction to the main schools of contemporary economic thought, presenting the current state of each school in its own terms, indicating its raison d'etre, why each school thinks as it does and the questions to which it is trying to find answers. There is an introductory chapter on the philosophy and methodology of economics and separate chapters on the Austrian, Neoclassical, Chicago, Keynesian, post-Keynesian, Institutionalist/Evolutionary and Radical/Marxian schools each written by an economist with specialist knowledge of the particular school. The book explains in straightforward terms the ideologies, methodological practices, issues, assumptions, evidence and conclusions in a positive and constructive way. It concludes that there can be no single, definitive approach to the study of economics and that the schools of thought should be seen as complementary to each other. Summaries are provided to allow readers to establish the principal features of each school.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 185278640X
• ISBN 13: 9781852786403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Mair Douglas, Miller Anne G.