Economics imperialism and interdisciplinarity. : the watershed and after / / Volume 2, : critical reconstructions of political economy : / Ben Fine.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 267
• VerfasserIn: Fine, Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 267.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages).

"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new overall introduction and literature survey drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction and overview -- Economics imperialism : a history of a revolution in economics that never was (acknowledged) -- 'Economic imperialism' : a view from the periphery -- "Household appliances and the use of time : the United States and Britain since the 1920s" -- a comment -- The economics of identity and the identity of economics? -- Collective choice and social welfare : economics imperialism in action and inaction -- The road ahead : from freakonomics to political economy -- Freakonomics as thickening end of the symbolic wedge -- Vicissitudes of economics imperialism -- Economics and interdisciplinarity : one step forward, N steps back?.