Dilemmas in Economic Theory : Persisting Foundational Problems of Microeconomics

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

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Mandler, Michael
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Wirtschaftstheorie \| Economic theory \| Wohlfahrtsökonomik \| Welfare economics \| Ökonomische Ideengeschichte \| History of economic thought \| Gleichgewichtstheorie \| Equilibrium theory \| Neoklassische Theorie \| Neoclassical economics \| Geschichte \| History \| Mikroökonomik \| Microeconomics
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (222 p.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; 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;
ISBN:	978-0-19-510087-7 ; 978-0-19-802611-2 ; 978-0-19-510087-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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