Keynes and the 'Classics'

A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-14072-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy?
In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, and in the case of both Marxian and neo-classical economics these preclude the development of a language which can accurately describe and analyse an economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verdon, Michel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter 2: Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter 3: Strange Cosmological Bedfellows Chapter 4: From Cosmology to Language Chapter 5: Keynes's Economics: What Kind of Revolution? Chapter 6: Keynes and Speculation: Aristotle Revisited Chapter 7: More Substance and Transactions Chapter 8: From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics Conclusion Appendix 1: Mirowski on Science and Economics Appendix 2: Marx's Economics: Successes and Failures Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Born in Montréal, Michel Verdon studied anthropology at the Université de Montréal and at Cambridge University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in1975. He taught at Cambridge from 1979 to 1984 and is now teaching in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. His research interest in the epistemological problems plaguing the study of society resulted in the publication in Paris of his own theoretical manifesto, Contre la culture (Edition des Archives Contemporaines).