Description: The Language of Economics Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions Author(s): Robert E. Mitchell Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319339801, 978-3319339801 Synopsis This Palgrave Pivot demonstrates that the inherited vocabularies of economics and other social sciences contain socially constructed words and theories that bias our very understanding of history and markets, bridging the empirical and moral dimensions of economics in general and inequality in particular. Wealth, GDP, hierarchies, and inequality are socially constructed words infused with moral overtones that academic philosophers and policy analysts have used to raise questions about "fairness" and "justice." This short intellectual and epistemological history explores and elaborates a limited number of key inequality-related terms, concepts, and mental images invented by centuries of economists and others. The author challenges us to question the assumptions made concerning presumably value-free concepts such as inequality, wealth, hierarchies, and the policy goals a nation can be pursuing.
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Book Title: The Language of Economics
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Width: 148 mm
Author: Robert E. Mitchell
Publication Name: The Language of Economics: Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Subject: Economics, Government
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 336 g
Number of Pages: 131 Pages
