1st Edition

Lament for Economics

By Barbara Wooton Copyright 2003
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    Does economics actually help us to understand and solve real world problems? Examining and analysing the role of economics and economic theory in the social and political life of the early twentieth century, many of the arguments contained in this book are as relevant and controversial today as when they were first published.

    Chapters include:
    1. The Relation of Economic Theory to the Actual Economic World
    2. The Nature and Insignificance of the Economic Science
    3. Economics as Apologetics?
    4. Economic Individualism

    Chapter 1 The Indictment; Chapter 2 The Relation of Economic Theory to the Actual Economic World; Chapter 3 The Nature and Insignificance of Economic Science; Chapter 4 Economics as Apologetics?; Chapter 5 Economic Individualism, Old and New Style; Chapter 6 Towards A New Foundation;

    Biography

    Barbara Wootton