Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Book Overview

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.

In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in Williamson and North a manipulative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226819442
• ISBN13: 9780226819440
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"