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Pluralist Economics

Pluralist Economics

1st edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionise mainstream economics. Leading figures in the field explain why pluralism is a required virtue in economics, how it came to be blocked and what it means for the way we think about, research and teach economics. The first part of the book looks at how neoclassical economics gained its stranglehold, particularly in the United States, and how the social and intellectual underpinnings of economics have enabled it to maintain this in the face of inconsistent evidence from the real world. This is then contrasted with different approaches to pluralism. Pluralist Economics then goes on to address the array of arguments for establishing pluralism, showing how economics came to function as a concealed ideology and not as a science, and how value-free economics is an illusion. Finally, it addresses the practical problems presented by this different way of doing economics.

About the Publisher

Zed Books

Zed Books is a critical and dynamic publisher, committed to increasing awareness of important international issues and to promoting diversity, alternative voices and progressive social change. We publish on politics, development, gender, the environment and economics for a global audience of students, academics, activist and general readers. As a worker co-operative, we aim to operate in an ethical and environmentally sustainable way.

Book information

ISBN: 9781848130432
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Imprint: Zed Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 516g
Height: 166mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 19mm