Economics Without Time: A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change - Hardcover

Graeme Snooks (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472104950 ISBN 13: 9780472104956

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1993

Synopsis

The central theme of this challenging and provocative study involves two interrelated ideas. The first is that the divorce between deductive theory and empirical reality in economics, together with the inability of theory to address, let alone resolve, the big issues facing human society, poses critical problems for a discipline that claims to possess social relevance. The second idea, which has considerable quantitative support, is that over the last millennium human society in Europe has been driven through time by great waves of economic change of some 150 to 300 years in duration. Just as the forces underlying these great waves have been important in the past, they will be important in the future. The author demonstrates convincingly that without the dimension of time in economics these longterm forces would remain unknown.

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About the Author

Graeme Donald Snooks is the Coghlan Professor of Economic History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472104950
• ISBN 13: 9780472104956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344