What's wrong with economics : (Record no. 3244)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 030025749X (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 9780300257496 (pbk.)
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System control number (OCoLC)1184235965
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Original cataloging agency YDX
Language of cataloging eng
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Classification number HB171
Item number .S55 2021
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Skidelsky, Robert,
Dates associated with a name 1939-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title What's wrong with economics :
Remainder of title a primer for the perplexed /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Robert Skidelsky.
246 13 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title What is wrong with economics?
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 223 p. :
Other physical details ill.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes notes, bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Why methodology? -- The basics : wants and means -- Economic growth -- Equilibrium -- Models and laws -- Economic psychology -- Sociology and economics -- Institutional economics -- Economics and power -- Why study the history of economic thought? -- Economic history -- Ethics and economics -- Retreat from omniscience -- The future of economics.
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Summary, etc. A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time. This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the advice of flawed economic models. Noted economic thinker Robert Skidelsky explains the circumstances that have brought about this constriction and proposes an approach to economics which includes philosophy, history, sociology, and politics. Skidelsky's clearly written and compelling critique takes aim at the way that economics is taught in today's universities, where a focus on modelling leaves students ill-equipped to grapple with what is important and true about human life. He argues for a return to the ideal set out by John Maynard Keynes that the economist must be a "mathematician, historian, statesman, [and] philosopher" in equal measure. -- Provided by publisher.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Economics.
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