Essays on the nature and state of modern economics
Tony Lawson
1. Continuing myths and fallacies of modern economics -- 2. Modern economics : the problem and a solution -- 3. The nature of heterodox economics -- 4. What is this 'school' called neoclassical economics? -- 5. The current economic crisis : its nature and the course of academic economics -- 6. Contemporary economics and the crisis -- 7. Mathematical modelling and ideology in the economics academy : competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline? -- 8. Tensions in modern economics : the case of equilibrium analysis -- 9. Soros' theory of reflexivity : a critical comment -- 10. Ontology, modern economics, and pluralism -- 11. The varying fortunes of the project of mathematising economics : an evolutionary explanation.