{"product_id":"essays-on-the-nature-and-state-of-modern-economics-9781138851023","title":"Essays on The Nature and State of Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of these issues currently available. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe financial crisis has not only revealed weaknesses of the capitalist economy but also highlighted just how limited and impoverished is modern academic economics. Despite the failings of the latter being more widely acknowledged now than ever, there is still an enormous amount of confusion about their source and true nature. In this collection, To\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a book of genuine originality, something that is rare in modern academia and all too often confused with mere novelty. Few thinkers can legitimately claim to have had a significant impact on their chosen field. Fewer still can claim to have substantively changed the terms of debate of that field. Tony Lawson is one of those few. These essays are for anyone with an interest in the future of the discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJamie Morgan, Reader in Economics, Leeds Beckett University; Co-editor Real World Economics Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Lawson has changed the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdward Fullbrook, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eExecutive Director of the World Economics Association.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawson writes with clarity and with an intellectual passion. A must read for any student of economics and political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeter Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book should be read by everyone concerned to remedy the deficiencies in economics exposed by the 2008 financial crisis. Through rigorous argument, Lawson shows that the answer is not more complex forms of mathematical modelling, but the adoption of… methods that recognize the open-ended, relational , and processual character of economies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiane Elson, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Lawson provides the \"L-correction\" to Friedman's \"F-twist\", by forcing economics to consider its ontology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteve Keen, Professor and Head of Economics, History \u0026amp; Politics, Kingston University London, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[...] should be required reading for all serious economists, regardless of their approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eG.C. Harcourt, Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Lawson is the enfant terrible of modern economic methodology. Whether you agree with him or not, he makes you think. This collection of papers is no exception. Highly recommended for all those with the slightest interest in the current state and nature of economic science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimitris Milonakis, Professor of Political Economy and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Crete, Greece.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book by Tony Lawson entitled Essays on the nature and state of modern economics comes at a particularly fitting time in the history of the economic academic discipline. After what has been regarded by many as one of its major setbacks—namely the failure to predict the 2008 global financial crisis—economics has been severely shaken, marginally challenged, but ultimately left untouched by the debates on its conditions that have sparked in the last few years. Therefore, Lawson's choice to assemble a number of previously published papers and a new one into this collection constitutes an important and welcome contribution to the methodology and philosophy of economics literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarco Sebastianelli, Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Some fallacies or myths of modern economics 2. Modern economics: the problem and a solution 3. The nature of heterodox economics 4. What is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics? 5. The current economic crisis: its nature and the course of academic economce 6. Contemporary economics and the crisis 7. Mathematical modelling and ideology in the economics academy: competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline 8. Tensions in modern economics: the case of equilibrium analysis 9. Soro’s theory of reflexivity a critical comment 10. Ontology, modern economics, and pluralism 11. The varying fortunes of the project of mathematising economics: an evolutionary explanation \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019533418839,"sku":"9781138851023","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138851023.jpg?v=1750780550","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/essays-on-the-nature-and-state-of-modern-economics-9781138851023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}