Foundations of Economic Evolution: A Treatise on the Natural Philosophy of Economics

Foundations of Economic Evolution: A Treatise on the Natural Philosophy of Economics
ISBN-10
1847204740
ISBN-13
9781847204745
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
663
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Edward Elgar Pub
Author
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Description

It offers path-breaking insights on the interactions between human economic activity and nature, and outlines a convincing solution to the long-standing reductionism controversy. A must-read for everyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of economics as a science.' - Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany. '"Big picture" philosophy of economics drifted into a dull cul-de-sac as it became obsessively focused on falsifiability and rationality. In this book, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath pushes the field back onto the open highway by locating economics in the larger frameworks of metaphysics, evolutionary dynamics and information theory. This is large-scale, ambitious synthesis of ideas of the kind we expect from time to time to see devoted to physics and biology.

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