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The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community
- Title
- The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin.
- Author
- Marglin, Stephen A.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- xvi, 359 pages; 25 cm
- Alternative Title
- How thinking like an economist undermines community
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-350) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Economics, the Market, and Community -- 2. What Is Community? And Is It Worth the Cost? -- 3. The Cutting Edge of Modernity -- 4. Individualism -- 5. Some History -- 6. From Vice to Virtue in a Century -- 7. How Do We Know When We Do Not Know? -- 8. Sources of the Modern Ideology of Knowledge -- 9. Taking Experience Seriously -- 10. Welfare Economics and the Nation-State -- 11. Why Is Enough Never Enough? -- 12. The Economics of Tragic Choices -- 13. From Imperialism to Globalization, by Way of Development -- Appendix A. The Limits of Dissent -- Appendix B. The Distributional Roots of the Enclosure Movement.
- ISBN
- 9780674026544 (alk. paper)
- 0674026543 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007020882
- 99818759539
- OCLC
- 133465536
- ocn133465536
- SCSB-9036150
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries