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020			_a9780511780196 (ebook)
020			_z9780521825542 (hardback)
020			_z9780521532617 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHB87 _b.B235 2010
082	0	0	_a330 _222
100	1		_aBackhouse, Roger E., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Puzzle of Modern Economics : _bScience or Ideology? / _cRoger E. Backhouse.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (224 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aDoes 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521825542
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780196
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38648 _d38648