"ECONOMIC MYTHS" Stephen Marglin, profesor de Economía en la Universidad de Harvard "One way of reading this book is as an investigation of the assumptions that allow, indeed compel, economists to reach conclusions that non-economists find difficult to fathom." "But I hope to do more that simply note the differences: economists claim that ours is a universal science, a discipline which explans human behavior not only on Wall Street, but in the villages of Asia and the souks of North Africa My take ys very much at odds with this view. A main purpose is to show how the assumptions of economics are rooted in the culture of the Modern West. More. Economics is the culture of the Modern West, or at least its cutting edge. Economics formalizes the cultural presuppositions into a coherent framework. Economic Man is Modern Man." matisse.univ-paris1.fr/doc2/EcoMyths.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:09:36 +0000
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