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The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin
Bib ID 4306399
Format BookBook
Author
Marglin, Stephen A
 
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Description Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008 
xvi, 359 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 9780674026544 (hbk.) :  0674026543 (hbk.) : 
Full contents
  • 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
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Economics - Sociological aspects.  |  Markets - Social aspects.  |  Economic development - Social aspects.  |  Communities.  |  Social structure - Economic aspects.
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