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Heterodox Economics

Foundations of Alternative Economics

by Hasan Gürak (Author)
©2012 Monographs XIII, 223 Pages

Summary

Mainstream economic textbooks propose a kind of economic world which can only exist in fictitious markets where producers and consumers interact like robots, relations are mechanical and assumptions utopian. Accordingly, the expositions are, in substance, nothing but sophistry. Yet, many economists are becoming more and more discontent with the sophistries of mainstream doctrines. The book presents some realistic alternative approaches to the conventional ‘unrealistic’ attitudes of mainstream economists in order to pave the way for a further development of new ideas.

Details

Pages
XIII, 223
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783653014310
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631634042
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01431-0
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (August)
Keywords
Economic Theory Development Economics Technology Transfer Institutional Economics
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XIV, 223 pp., 18 tables, 31 graphs

Biographical notes

Hasan Gürak (Author)

Dr. Hasan Gürak was born in Istanbul. After having attended several undergraduate courses both in Germany and England, he moved to Sweden where he acquired a degree in economics in 1977 from the University of Lund. He continued post-graduate studies in Sweden between 1977 and 1981 and presented his Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Istanbul in 1991. Presently he is engaged in academic research in the field known as ‘Heterodox Economics’, aiming to develop alternative theories and analyses in mainstream economics.

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