Essays in the history of heterodox political economy
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Essays in the history of heterodox political economy
Macmillan, 1992
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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.
Table of Contents
- The scope of economics historically considered
- the history of economic thought as intellectual history
- the state, law and 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 E. Witte's concept of the role of government in the economy
- the economy as a system of power and its legal bases - the legal economics of Robert Lee Hale
- legal realism and the burden of symbolism - the correspondence of Thurman Arnold Galbraith on economics as a system of professional belief
- Gardiner C means's institutional and post Keynesian economics
- in praise of Joan Robinson - economics as social control.
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