The Mind and Method of the Economist: A Critical Appraisal of Major Economists in the 20th CenturyThis major book comprises amongst other essays critical appraisals of major economists including Alfred Marshall, Joan Robinson, G.B. Richardson, W.J. Baumol, Frank Hahn and Herbert Simon and of Austrian economics and diverse approaches to co-ordination failure in macroeconomics. |
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George Shackles history of economic theory | 1 |
On scientific method | 15 |
Public science and public knowledge | 30 |
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action Adam Smith adjustment analysis analytical appears argues argument assumption Austrian economics basis Baumol behaviour bounded rationality Cambridge chapter claim coherence concept conjectures coordination costs criticism decisions depends econ economic theory economists effective entrepreneurs equilibrium models equilibrium theory explain failure firm formal framework function Hahn Hahn's Hayek human hypothesis ideas imperfect important increasing returns industry institutions interdependence Joan Robinson Keynes Keynes's Kirzner Lakatos logic long-run macroeconomics managerial managers market process Marshall Marshall's Marshallian method monopolistic competition neoclassical neoclassical economics objective observed oligopoly omic optimization organization organizational output Oxford paradigm Pareto-efficient particular perfect competition Pigou Popper possible preferences principle problems production profit profit maximization rational choice rational choice theory rational expectations reason recognized refutation require research programme Richardson 1960 sales revenue maximization Schumpeter Shackle Shackle's Simon Smith social Sraffa's structure theoretical theorists unemployment value theory Walrasian Walrasian equilibrium Walrasian model Whitley