Author : Gordon C. Winston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521022507
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)
Book Synopsis The Boundaries of Economics by : Gordon C. Winston
Download or read book The Boundaries of Economics written by Gordon C. Winston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book explore some of the important areas of the long boundary between economics and intellectually adjacent disciplines, by placing the neoclassical paradigm in the broader context of these other social sciences. Written by economists and philosophers, these papers examine the themes that complicate the conventional economist's view of the world and thereby provide a notably more complex (and humane) subject than the traditional homo economicus. In analyzing these "imperialist forays" from the field and "territorial invasions" upon it, the contributors seek to understand what it is that separates economics from the other kinds of inquiry and to expound upon the actual limits of economics. They also look at the shifts and changes in the boundaries of what is considered economics.