书目名称 | Principles of Economics for a Post-Meltdown World |
编辑 | John Komlos |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/756/755565/755565.mp4 |
概述 | Examines neoclassical economics assumptions in introductory economics.Provides a more diverse and realistic range of perspectives on the mechanics of markets.Investigates the deleterious effect of int |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Economics |
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描述 | .This brief emphasizes the ways in which introductory economics textbooks incorrectly rely on assumptions about the free market, the rational agent model, market fundamentalism, and standard long-standing assumptions in economics, and in doing so disregard the effects of incomplete and asymmetric information on choice and on allocation, and maintain a general but flawed belief that competitive markets can always provide efficient solutions automatically. In other words, the standard economics principles textbook is anachronistic, they assume that tastes are exogenous, they overlook interdependencies and externalities not only in production but in consumption of goods, and they overlook the fact that path-dependence is a major hindrance to optimization. Mainstream principles of economics textbooks distort our worldview with immense political and cultural consequences. Students of these principles deserve a more complete perspective, and this brief critiques that conventional worldviewand provides an alternative perspective, with an emphasis on free-market economics wherein the human element should be paramount and moral judgments should override market outcomes. In other words, what |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Introductory Economics; Progressive Economics; Invisible Hand; Pluralistic Economics; Heterodox Economic |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27828-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-27827-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-27828-5Series ISSN 2191-5504 Series E-ISSN 2191-5512 |
issn_series | 2191-5504 |
copyright | The Author(s) 2016 |