Who runs the economy? [electronic resource] : the role of power in economics / edited by Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig.
Skidelsky, Robert, editor.; Craig, Nan, editor.
2016
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Title
Who runs the economy? [electronic resource] : the role of power in economics / edited by Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig.
ISBN
9781137580177 (electronic book)
1137580178 (electronic book)
1137580186
9781137580184
1137580194
9781137580191
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58017-7
Publication Details
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-58017-7 doi
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HD87
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.9
Summary
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of what went wrong, very little has substantially changed. Perhaps the answer has something to do with power; a subject on which economics is unusually quiet. Whilst economics may be able to discuss bargaining power and market power, it fails to explore the reciprocal connections between economic ideas and politics: the political power of economic ideas on the one side, and the influence of power structures on economic thought on the other. This book explores how the supposedly neutral discipline of economics does not simply describe human behaviour, but in fact shapes it.
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Skidelsky, Robert, editor.
Craig, Nan, editor.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Session 1: Economics and Power: Basic Models of the Relationship
Power and Economics
Steven Lukes
Jonathan Hearn
Economics as Superstructure
Norbert Haring
Lucas Zeise
Economics as Science
Nancy Cartwright
John Bryan Davis
Session 2: Case Studies
The Keynesian Revolution and the Theory of Countervailing Powers
Robert Skidelsky
Roger Backhouse
Neoclassical Counter-revolution and the Ascendancy of Business 1970–1990
Daniel Stedman Jones
Ben Jackson
Session 3: Applications to the Present
Economics and the Banks
Adair Turner
Thomas Palley
Power and Inequality
Jamie Galbraith
Anthony Heath
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