Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

by Stephen A. Marglin

Book Overview

Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and that the only community that matters is the nation-state. However, as Stephen A. Marglin argues, market relationships erode community. In the past, for example, when a farm family experienced a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047222
• ISBN13: 9780674047228
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"