Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2019 Level: adelantado Marx's approach to economics: a claim for subjective praxis Clara Mattei New School for Social Research, Department of Economics This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy and Economics course at the University of Waterloo. 2019 Level: debutante Philosophy and Economics Patricia Marino University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2015 Level: debutante Philosophy of Economics Dan Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics" at the Duke University 2022 Level: debutante The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics Kevin Hoover Duke University Reflecting his own concerns about the contribution economics could make to the betterment of society, Eli Ginzberg published this study of Smith's humanitarian views on commerce, industrialism, and labor. Written for his doctoral degree at Columbia University, and originally published as The House of Adam Smith, the book is divided into two parts. 2002 Level: adelantado Adam Smith and the Founding of Market Economics Eli Ginzberg Transaction Publishers, U.S.A. Readers of economic and political theory as well as students of economic planning will appreciate this classic, now available for the first time in English. Written eighty years ago, when Sorel became disillusioned with the official socialism of the German and French Marxist parties, this new translation presents Sorel's analysis of the rise and fall of the two great modern ideologies: socialism and liberal capitalism. 2017 Level: adelantado Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics Georges Sorel Routledge Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. 2009 Level: adelantado Race, Liberalism, And Economics Colander, David; Prasch, Robert E.; Shetz, Falguni A. University of Michigan Press Is our knowledge of the world essentially rational What does it mean to be burdened with the gift of rationality Philosopher Corine Besson considers the nature of humanity s defining trait Corine Besson iai University of Sussex Level: debutante Knowledge and Rationality Corine Besson University of Sussex Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. 2018 Level: adelantado Economics and Literature Cinla Akdere, Christine Baron Routledge This brief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently facing due to its heavy reliance on models and narrow range of quantitative research techniques. It takes a broader view, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox and pluralist approaches to economics. 2014 Level: adelantado Rethinking Economics Stuart Birks Springer Economics is extremely sick. It is so locked in its past that nearly all of its introductory textbooks are modelled on one that appeared in 1948. The discipline cannot continue in its autistic state much longer. 2007 Level: adelantado Real World Economics Edward Fullbrook Anthem Press The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore. 2009 Level: adelantado Economic Pluralism Robert F. Garnett, Erik K. Olsen, Martha A. Starr Routledge The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish” (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. 1999 Level: debutante The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner Touchstone

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? 2015 Level: adelantado Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics Tony Lawson Routledge