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A Not-so-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies
Book
Mancur Olson, Satu Kahkonen
January 2000 |
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Modern economics has been evolving, both contributing to and borrowing from other disciplines. More recently, many of the greatest successes in economics have fallen outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Economic ideas have begun to inform the study of law, to the point where “law and economics” has become a major field. In the study of politics, economists and political scientists using economics-type methods are uniquely influential. In sociology and history, economics has had a smaller but growing influence through “rational choice sociology” and “clinometric.”
This book illustrates the intellectual advances that account for the evolution of this unified view of economies and societies.
About the Editors
The late Mancur Olson was Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, and Founder and Principal Investigator of the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland. A former President of the Eastern Economics Association, President of Section K (Social, Economics and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and Vice-President of the American Economic Association, his long and distinguished career included posts at Harvard and Princeton, as well as periods with the US Department of Health and the US Air Force
Economist Satu Kähkönen formerly served as Associate Director of the IRIS Center.
Contributors
Pranab Bardhan, Robert D. Cooter, J. Bradford De Long, Russell Hardin, Satu Kähkönen, Erik Moberg, Joel Mokyr, Edward Montgomery, Mancur Olson, Oliver E. Williamson
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