Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel

Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree

Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel

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Edited by Roberto Baranzini, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne, François Allisson, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781447178

Subjects:: Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology

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Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto as well as a key member of the executive board of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). This major essay collection reflects his wide range of interests and his seminal contributions to economic theory. It is the work of more than thirty of the most senior scholars of economics working today. This volume will be a standard reference work for all those working in the areas of economics, political sciences, sociology and philosophy.

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Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree

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Part IV - Methodology

18 - The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics in Adam Smith
pp 223-266

19 - Why do Economists and Philosophers Resort to the History of their Discipline?
pp 267-276

20 - Interest-Based Prediction and Mutual Expectations: Reflections on the Normative Value of Hobbesian Methodology
pp 277-290

21 - Tempests of the Business World: Weather Metaphors for Crises in the Nineteenth Century
pp 291-308

22 - Samuelson and the Non-Substitution Theorem: Some Methodological Remarks
pp 309-316

Part V - Economics and Humanities

Economics and Social Sciences

23 - Homo Œconomicus and Homo Sociologicus as Contrasted Ideal-Types
pp 317-328

24 - Social Sciences in Front of ‘Broad Questions’
pp 329-342

25 - Sociology: An Infirm Science?
pp 343-362

Some Insights from Visual Arts

26 - Imaginative Intelligence: Cognition in the Visual Arts versus Rationality in Economics
pp 363-382

27 - Realism and Reality: The Arguments of Cinema
pp 383-396

Part VI - Economics and Civil Society

28 - A Reflection on the Social Utility of Modern Macroeconomics
pp 397-412

29 - Failing to Control: Accountability in Historical Perspective
pp 413-424

30 - Does Transparency Engender the Confidence of the Governed? A Contribution to Political Thought
pp 425-434

31 - Face to the Environmental Challenge: Straddling the Fence between Social Responsibility and Penal Responsibility
pp 435-448

32 - Law as a System of Normative Production: Law and Semiotics
pp 449-460

Notes
pp 461-536

Index
pp 537-554

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