Where Economics Went Wrong : : Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism /

Where Economics Went Wrong : : Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism / / David Colander, Craig Freedman.

How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its wayMilton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went W...

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Colander, David,
Freedman, Craig,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. Sweet Science: Engineering a New Approach to Economic Policy
  • 2. A Classical Garden of Liberal Economics: Policy versus Abstraction
  • 3. Planting the Seeds of a Chicago Tradition
  • 4. Ashes and Diamonds: The Rise of the Chicago School
  • 5. What Has Chicago Wrought? Painting Policy by the Numbers
  • 6. Economic Policy Becomes a Science: The Rise of Welfare Economics, and the Chicago Alternative
  • 7. Roads Not Taken: The Stillborn Virginia School of Economics
  • 8. The Classical Liberal "Argumentation for the Sake of Heaven" Alternative
  • 9. The Art and Craft of Economics: The Classical Liberal Attitude
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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