Social Costs Today: Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises: 158 (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415508460 ISBN 13: 9780415508469

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social costs. It does not deal with social costs according to the Pigouvian or the Coasian traditions. It draws on the work of Original Institutional Economics (OIE) such as Thorstein Veblen, Karl William Kapp, and Karl Polanyi, on Post-Keynesians such as Hyman Minsky and, in general, on authors who have provided insights beyond the conventional wisdom of economic thought.

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Paolo Ramazzotti, Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415508460
• ISBN 13: 9780415508469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Elsner Wolfram, Frigato Pietro, Ramazzotti Paolo