Reconstructing economic theory: the problem of human agency

Title: Reconstructing economic theory: the problem of human agency
Creator: Oakley, Allen
Relation: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_DESCRIPTION.lasso?id=1816
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Resource Type: book
Date: 2002
Description: This book applies a critical focus on the extent to which methodological practices in mainstream economic theory impede our understanding of substantive economic phenomena as the products of human action. Economists, in general, work with a concept and representation of the human agent that is palpably unrealistic. Most do so, not out of ignorance, but rather to maintain the pretence that economics is the only true science among the social sciences because it enforces the use of rigorous and formalist methods of argument.
Subject: economic theory; human agency; psychological aspects of economics; sociological aspects of economics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35052
Identifier: uon:3799
Identifier: ISBN:9781840641332
Language: eng