Alex Rosenberg

Blunt Instrument

Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better...Why We Need It Anyway

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why economic theory with no track-record of predictive success is still an indispensable tool for protecting civilized life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049658
• ISBN-10: 0262049651
• Artikelnr.: 71238093

Autorenporträt

Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments. He has held fellowships with the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1993 Alex received the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science. He has authored more than a dozen academic books, several historical novels, and hundreds of academic papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Why We Need to Understand Economic Theory
Chapter Two: Economics Won’t Budge, Can’t Budge, from Rational Choice
Theory
Chapter Three: Adam Smith is Still Setting the Agenda For Economic Theory
Chapter Four: Who Invited Calculus?
Chapter Five: Who Needs Money? Not Economic Theory!
Chapter Six: Back to the Future with The New Classical Macroeconomics
Chapter Seven: Economic Theory’s War against Profit
Chapter Eight: It’s All Game Theory Now
Chapter Nine: Financial Markets are the most important markets. So why are
they fated always to fail the most?
Chapter Ten: Why Economics is Indispensable Anyway