Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie (New Thinking in Political Economy)
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2006 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 324 ISBN: 1845425111 `This book highlights Don Lavoie's multidisciplinary approach to the study of economics. In his view, economics is closer to the humanities than to the hard sciences, notwithstanding the claim often made in the literature that economics is indeed "a hard science". True to Lavoie's vision, the book contains theoretical articles and case studies which link economics to several fields of study. It is a delight to see emphasis placed on the "hows and whys" underlying market processes.' - Alan A. Rabin, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, US `The authors do well-merited honor to Don Lavoie with carefully written contributions that not only are excellent for a memorial volume but could constitute a selection of outstanding journal articles. They tie together Lavoie's many superficially different interests in, among others, comparative economic systems, market processes, computer programming, and epistemology. In particular, they emphasize how markets and prices enhance ...