Dimitris Milonakis: 2 books
From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly...