Marglin Stephen A

The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Thinking like an economist undermines community Stephen A. Marglin. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economics, the market, and community -- What is community? and is it worth the cost? -- The cutting edge of modernity -- Individualism -- Some history -- From vice to virtue in a century -- How do we know when we do not know? -- Sources of the modern ideology of knowledge -- Taking experience seriously -- Welfare economics and the nation-state -- Why is enough never enough? -- The economics of tragic choices -- From imperialism to globalization, by way of development -- Appendix A: The limits of dissent -- Appendix B: The distributional roots of the enclosure movement.

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Economics--Sociological aspects
Markets--Social aspects
Economic development--Social aspects
Communities
Social structure--Economic aspects

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