This is a collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The principal topics are the nature and scope of economics as an intellectual venture, realistic theories of the economic role of government, including the economy as a system of power and its legal bases, and economics as "psychic balm", professionalized discourse and social control. Among the individuals whose work is singled-out are Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E ...
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This is a collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The principal topics are the nature and scope of economics as an intellectual venture, realistic theories of the economic role of government, including the economy as a system of power and its legal bases, and economics as "psychic balm", professionalized discourse and social control. Among the individuals whose work is singled-out are Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E. Witte, Robert Lee Hale, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thurman Arnold, Gardiner Means and Joan Robinson.
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Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, x, 351 pp. Contents: The Scope of Economics Historically Considered; The History of Economic Thought as Intellectual History; The State, Law & Economic Organization; A Centenary Reconsideration of Bellamy's 'Looking Backward'; Thorstein Veblen, Heterodox Economist, in Retrospect; The Firing of E.A. Ross from Stanford University: Injustice Compounded by Deception? ; Edwin W. Witte's Concept of the Role of Government in the Economy; The Economy as a System of Power & its Legal Bases: The Legal Economics of Robert Lee Hale; Legal Realism & the Burden of Symbolism: The Correspondence of Thurman Arnold; Galbraith on Economics as a System of Professional Belief; Gardiner C. Means's Institutional & Post-Keynesian Economics; In Praise of Joan Robinson: Economics as Social Control.
