Reorienting Economics

Reorienting Economics
ISBN-10
113452594X
ISBN-13
9781134525942
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
406
Language
English
Published
2012-08-21
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Tony Lawson

Description

Contemporary economics is characterized by a mismatch between its methods of analysis and the nature of the world it seeks to interpret. Despite regular economic crises and ongoing critique of the discipline, the drift from political economy into applied mathematics appears to continue unabated. In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality. In analyzing mainstream economists' misplaced universality, the author places ontology at the heart of a reoriented future in which economics is integrated within the wider human and social sciences.

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