TY  - BOOK
AU  - Backhouse,Roger E.
TI  - The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology? 
SN  - 9780511780196 (ebook)
AV  - HB87 .B235 2010
U1  - 330 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and controversy on this question. Case studies of the creation of new markets, the Russian transition to capitalism, globalization, and money and finance establish that economics has been very successful where problems have been well defined and where the world can be changed to fit the theory, but that it has been less successful in tackling bigger problems. The book then offers a historical perspective on how economists have, since the Second World War, tried to make their subject scientific. It explores the evolving relationship between science and ideology and investigates the place of heterodoxy and dissent within the discipline
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780196
ER  -