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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786079203321

Titolo

Social fairness and economics : economic essays in the spirit of Duncan Foley / / edited by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, and Thomas Michl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-92408-0

0-203-10950-3

1-136-27088-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 169

Altri autori (Persone)

MichlThomas R

RezaiArmon

TaylorLance <1940->

Disciplina

330.15

Soggetti

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Equilibrium (Economics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Socio-economic ideology and methodology -- pt. 2. Neoclassical economics : dispersed and decentralized exchange -- pt. 3. Classical political economy : growth and distribution -- pt. 4. Complexity : barriers and bounds to rationality.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley's work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving general equilibrium theories of value and money. Foley was a pioneer of complexity economics as well, which adopts approaches to these questions drawn from natural sciences, so the collection therefore has