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Open Economics
Economics in relation to other disciplines
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Coordinators: Arena Richard, Dow Sheila, Klaes Matthias
Language: EnglishSubject for Open Economics:
Keywords
Vice Versa; Keynes; milanese; Milanese School; school; Keynes’s Criticism; homo; Cowles Commission Approach; oeconomicus; Gustav Schmoller; keyness; Homo Oeconomicus; criticism; Le Corbusier; geography; Spatial Economic Analysis; pietro; Pietro Verri; verri; Veblen’s Explanation; corbusier; Bruna Ingrao; Pre-classical Economics; Moral Newtonianism; Axiomatic Rigour; Dense; Predatory Colonialism; Stanley Jevons; Keynes 1973c; Economic Journal; Gene Culture Co-evolution; Axiomatic Method; Petty’s Writings; Professor Tinbergen
Publication date: 11-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2009
288 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Economics has developed into one of the most specialised social sciences. Yet at the same time, it shares its subject matter with other social sciences and humanities and its method of analysis has developed in close correspondence with the natural and life sciences. This book offers an up to date assessment of economics in relation to other disciplines.
This edited collection explores fields as diverse as mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, sociology, architecture, and literature, drawing from selected contributions to the 2005 Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). There is currently much discussion at the leading edges of modern economics about openness to other disciplines, such as psychology and sociology. But what we see here is that economics has drawn on (as well as contributed to) other disciplines throughout its history. In this sense, in spite of the increasing specialisation within all disciplines, economics has always been an open discipline and the chapters in this volume provide a vivid illustration for this.
Open Economics is a testament to the intellectual vibrancy of historical research in economics. It presents the reader with a historical introduction to the disciplinary context of economics that is the first of its kind, and will appeal to practising economists and students of the discipline alike, as well as to anybody interested in economics and its position in the scientific and social scientific landscape.
Introduction: Economics in relation to other disciplines Richard Arena, Sheila Dow and Matthias KlaesPart I. Economics in relation to the humanities and social sciences 1. The social science of economics Brian J. Loasby 2. Economics and literature Bruna Ingrao 3. Happiness: what Kahneman could have learnt from Pietro Verri Pier Luigi PortaPart II. Economics in relation to the life and natural sciences 4. Newtonian physics, experimental moral philosophy and the shaping of political economy Sergio Cremaschi 5. Evolutionary biology and economic behaviour: re-visiting Veblen's instinct of workmanship Mark Harrison 6. Medicine and economics in pre-classical economics Alain Clément and Ludovic DesmedtPart III. Economics and mathematics 7. Mathematics as the role model for neoclassical economics Nicola Giocoli 8. The role of econometric method in economic analysis: A reassessment of the Keynes-Tinbergen debate, 1938-43 Giovanna Garrone and Roberto Marchionatti IV. Economics and architecture 9. Economics and architecture Maurice Lagueux 10. Economic policies and urban development in Latin America Michele Alacevich and Andrea Costa V. Economics and geography 11. ‘Space’ in economic thought Giovanna Vertova 12. Economics, geography and colonialism in the writings of William Petty Hugh GoodacrePart VI. Economics and sociology 13. Economics and sociology: Gustav Schmoller and Werner Sombart on social differentiation Joachim Zweynert 14. Is Homo Oeconomicus a 'bad guy'? Isabelle This Saint-Jean
Richard Arena is Professor of Economics at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. Sheila Dow is Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, UK. Matthias Klaes is Professor of Commerce at Keele University, UK.