Beyond Rational Choice: Alternative Perspectives on Economics (University Casebook Series)

November 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Law Books

Product Description

This book is designed to provide materials for faculty and students who want to explore the basic intellectual history of modern economics and its turn away from rigid rationality assumptions by including material that would be useful in courses and seminars taught in economics departments at all levels, law school courses and seminars. It looks beyond neoclassical theory to provide the following alternatives: An introduction to the major challenges to the neoclassical model from scholars who share a faith in market ordering with overviews of the perspectives of behavioral economics, informational economics, institutional economics, and social norms. An introduction to the major criticisms of neoclassical economics from scholars who reject the model of the market for distributing the basic necessities of life with overviews of the perspectives of humanism; feminist critiques of market theory; racial critiques of market theory; empirical evidence of persistent racial discrimination in major markets; and market socialism.

Product Details

No details are available for this product

Video Reviews

No video reviews found for this product.

Customer Reviews

No customer reviews were found for this product.

Tags: alternative, beyond, casebook, choice, economics, perspectives, rational, series, university

Comments

Comments are closed.