TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Skidelsky, Robert, AU - Craig, Nan, CN - HD87 CY - London : DA - 2016. DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-58017-7 DO - doi ID - 763194 KW - Economic policy LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-58017-7 N2 - 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. PB - Palgrave Macmillan, PP - London : PY - 2016. SN - 9781137580177 SN - 1137580178 T1 - Who runs the economy?the role of power in economics / TI - Who runs the economy?the role of power in economics / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-58017-7 ER -