Borderlands of Economics: Essays in Honour of

In recent years there has been increasing discontent with the abstract nature of mainstream economics. Not only does this make the subject less relevant to real issues, it drives a wedge between economcis and other disciplines ostensibly addressing the same issues.IBorderlands of Economicsexplores the ways in which economcs might be reconnected, both with the real world and with other disciplines.

List of figures and tables

vii

(2)

Contributors

ix

(5)

Foreword

xiv

Part I Introduction

3

(68)

1 AN INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY

3

(22)

Daniel R. Fusfeld

2 DAN FUSFELD: TEACHER AND MENTOR

25

(7)

Nahid Aslanbeigui

Young Back Choi

3 FUSFELD AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY

32

(15)

A.W. Coats

4 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DANIEL R. FUSFELD, ECONOMIST

47

(24)

Nancy E. Bertaux

Part II History of economic thought

71

(82)

5 CONDITIONAL SUPPORT OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE: SOME CASE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

71

(21)

Michael Perelman

6 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 1980-95

92

(17)

Gale Summerfield

7 GENDER IN ECONOMICS AND THE GENDER OF ECONOMISTS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

109

(22)

Nancy E. Bertaux

8 THE CHANGING STATUS OF THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT IN ECONOMICS CURRICULA

131

(22)

Nahid Aslanbeigui

Michele I. Naples

Part III Alternative approaches to neoclassical modeling

153

(82)

9 COSTS AND POWER

153

(18)

Warren J. Samuels

A. Allan Schmid

10 CULTURE AS A GROWTH RESOURCE

171

(23)

Shlomo Maital

Shosh Sharabani

11 AN EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIORAL VARIATION

194

(20)

Cynthia M. Browning

12 DECISION-MAKING AS LEARNING PROCESS

214

(21)

Young Back Choi

Part IV Political economy

235

(93)

13 LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES FOR YOUNGER BOSTON AREA WORKERS IN THE 1990s: THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF RACE:

235

(34)

Barry Bluestone

Mary Huff Stevenson

14 INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONALISM: CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY

269

(17)

Wallace C. Peterson

15 LIBERALISM, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, AND THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS: THE DEBT CRISIS IN AFRICA

286

(23)

E. Wayne Nafziger

16 ECONOMICS WITHOUT HISTORY: THE EFFORTS TO WESTERNIZE THE EAST

309

(19)

Thomas E. Weisskopf

Index

328

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