Title The dismal science : how thinking like an economist undermines community / Stephen A. Marglin.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.3 M328D	Check Shelf

Description	xvi, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-350) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Economics -- Sociological aspects.
	Markets -- Social aspects.
	Economic development -- Social aspects.
	Communities.
	Social structure -- Economic aspects.
	Economics -- Sociological aspects.
	Markets -- Social aspects.
	Economic development -- Social aspects.
	Communities.
	Social structure -- Economic aspects.
	Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
	Economic development -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901865
	Economics -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902213
	Markets -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01010335
	Social structure -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01123376
	Sociologia econômica.
	Desenvolvimento econômico (aspectos sociais)
	Comunidades.
	Estrutura social (aspectos sociais)
	Wirtschaftssoziologie.
	Wirtschaft.
	Gesellschaft.
	Wirtschaftswissenschaften.
Added Title	How thinking like an economist undermines community
ISBN	9780674026544
	0674026543

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