A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies

by Mancur Olson

Book Overview

Many of economics' greatest successes have been outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Economic ideas have been the intellectual focus in the study of law, while in the study of politics, economists and political scientists using economics-type methods are uniquely influential. In sociology and history, economics has had a smaller but growing influence through "rational choice sociology" and "cliometrics."

This book shows that,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198294905
• ISBN13: 9780198294900
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"