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.