Economics and interdisciplinary exchange / edited by Guido Erreygers.

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English
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1st ed.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
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Economists have not always been on friendly terms with scientists from other fields. More than once, economists have been accused of 'imperialism' or criticized for neglecting the insights obtained in other fields. The history of economics, however, yields manifold examples of interdisciplinary 'borrowing' where economists have adapted concepts and theories from other fields. This book deals with the exchanges (or sometimes the lack thereof) between economics and neighbouring disciplines.The contributions examine specific cases and episodes taken from the history of economics, indica
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Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the 4th annual European Conference on the History of Economics, held Apr. 23-25, 1998 at the University of Antwerp.
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Contents
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: Crossing boundaries: economics and its neighbours GUIDO ERREYGERS; Economic life in nineteenth-century novels: what economists might learn from literature BRUNA INGRAO; The beginning of 'boundaries': the sudden separation of economics from Christian theology A.M.C. WATERMAN; History and economic analysis in German nineteenth-century economics PETER ROSNER; Jevons and Wicksteed: crossing borders in the history of economics FLAVIO COMIM
  • Economists as demographers: Wicksell and Pareto on population MAURO BOIANOVSKYCompetition and economic temperature: the entropy law in Emanuele Sella's work CLAUDIA ROTONDI; Particles or humans? Econometric quarrels on Newtonian mechanics and the social realm FRANCISCO LOU; Disciplinary developments in Dutch economics and the emergence of the Dutch welfare state (1930 1960) ARNOLD WILTS; Index
ISBN
  • 0-429-22962-3
  • 1-134-59147-0
  • 1-280-40238-5
  • 9786610402380
  • 0-203-24920-8
  • 0-203-20435-2
OCLC
  • 475876620
  • 1000426447
  • 45162188
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203204351
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