The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008
Descript
xvi, 359 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- Cutting edge of modernity -- Individualism -- Some history -- From vice to virtue in a century -- How do we know when we do not know? -- Sources of the modern ideology of knowledge -- Taking experience seriously -- Welfare economics and the nation-state -- Why is enough never enough? -- Economics of tragic choices -- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development