Reorienting economics / Tony Lawson.
"This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | Economics as social theory.
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| Summary: | "This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can move away from the bafflingly intransigent belief that economics is at its core reliant upon mathematical modelling. This maths-envy is the reason why economics is in a state of such disarray."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 383 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415253357 9780415253352 0415253365 9780415253369 |