The Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science

by Gilbert Rist

In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented', and the resultant biases that helped forge the construction of economics as a 'science'. In doing so, Rist demonstrates how these various presuppositions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848139225
• ISBN13: 9781848139220
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"