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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.15
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Moral and ethical aspects; Equilibrium (Economics)
• Altri autori: MichlThomas R RezaiArmon TaylorLance <1940->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social fairness and economics
• ISBN: 1-283-92408-0; 0-203-10950-3; 1-136-27088-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786079203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy