Dilemmas in economic theory: persisting foundational problems of microeconomics
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Main Author: Mandler, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2001
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Originally published: 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction: The Transformation of Economic Theory; 2. Marginal Productivity and the Indeterminacy of Factor Prices; 3. The Prehistory of Distribution Theory: The Wage Fund and the Invention of Marginal Productivity; 4. The Ordinal Revolution; 5. Historical Issues in Preference Theory: Cardinality and the Transition to Ordinalism; 6. Paretian Welfare Economics; 7. A Positive Rate of Interest?; 8. Conclusion; References; Index
By examining the development of economics in the 20th century, this book argues that the breakthroughs of post-World War II general equilibrium theory and its rejection of utilitarianism and marginal productivity have been misunderstood
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 211 pages)
ISBN:160256731X
9781602567313
9780198026112
0198026110
0195145755
9780195145755
1423745779
9781423745778

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