
A Not-so-dismal Science
A Broader View of Economies and Societies
Oxford University Press
Published on 6. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-19-829490-0 (ISBN)
Description
Modern economics is like a metropolitan area. Economists' ideas about business and markets are like the magnificent buildings of the city centre. Yet most growth and prosperity is in the suburbs -- lately many of economics' greatest successes have been outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline. In the study of law, economic ideas have been the intellectual focus and `law and economics' has become a major field. In the study of politics, economists and political scientists using economics-type methods are uniquely influential. In sociology and history, economics has had a smaller but growing influence through `rational choice sociology' and `cliometrics'. The influence of the economists type thinking in other social sciences is bringing about a theoretical integration of all the social sciences under one overarching paradigm. The chapters of the book illustrate the intellectual advances that account for this unified view of economies and societies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829490-0 (9780198294900)
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01/2000
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Persons
Mancur Olson was Distinguished Professor of economics at the University of Maryland and Founder and Principal Investigator of the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), also based at the University of Maryland.
Satu Kahkonen is Associate Director of IRIS.
Satu Kahkonen is Associate Director of IRIS.
Editor
former Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; former Principal Investigatorformer Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; former Principal Investigator, Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
Associate DirectorAssociate Director, IRIS
Content
Introduction: The Broader View ; 1. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others Poor ; 2. Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia ; 3. Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom ; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development ; 5. Overstrong against Thyself: War, the State, and Growth in Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution ; 6. The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis ; 7. Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Really that Bad? ; 8. Communities and Development: Autarkic Social Groups and the Economy ; 9. Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms ; 10. The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development