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The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin.
Publication details: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: xvi, 359 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780674026544 :
- 0674026543 :
- How thinking like an economist undermines community
- HB724 .M37 2008
Contents:
Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- The 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? -- The economics of tragic choices -- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development -- Appendix A: The limits of dissent -- Appendix B: The distributional roots of the enclosure movement.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HB 724 .M37 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 601907 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-350) and index.
Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- The 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? -- The economics of tragic choices -- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development -- Appendix A: The limits of dissent -- Appendix B: The distributional roots of the enclosure movement.
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