The dismal science how thinking like an economist undermines community

Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- The cutting edge of modernity -- Individualism -- Some history -- From vice to virtue in a century -- How do we know when we do not know? -- Sources of the modern ideology of knowledge -- Taking experience seriou...

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1. Verfasser: Marglin, Stephen A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. u.a. Harvard University Press c 2008
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Zusammenfassung:Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- The cutting edge of modernity -- Individualism -- Some history -- From vice to virtue in a century -- How do we know when we do not know? -- Sources of the modern ideology of knowledge -- Taking experience seriously -- Welfare economics and the nation-state -- Why is enough never enough? -- The economics of tragic choices -- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development -- Appendix A: The limits of dissent -- Appendix B: The distributional roots of the enclosure movement
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 333 - 350
Beschreibung:XVI, 359 S
ISBN:0674026543
0-674-02654-3
9780674026544
978-0-674-02654-4