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Synopsis
Many of economics' greatest successes have been outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Economic ideas have been the intellectual focus in the study of law, while in the study of politics, economists and political scientists using economics-type methods are uniquely influential. In sociology and history, economics has had a smaller but growing influence through "rational choice sociology" and "cliometrics."
This book shows that, in calling economics the "dismal science," Thomas Carlyle was profoundly wrong. Economic ideas have illuminated behaviour in all of the social sciences in addition to the economists' traditional domain. The broadening of economics and the use of economists' methods by social scientists in other fields is leading to a unified and positive view of economies and societies.
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About the Author
Mancur Olson was Distinguished Professor of economics at the University of Maryland and Founder and Principal Investigator of the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), also based at the University of Maryland.
Satu Kahkonen is Associate Director of IRIS.
Review
`Accessible to a wide range of readers.'
R.B. Emmett, Choice, Sept. 00.
`Many social scientists and economists will be eager to look at this book. It is one of the last - if not the last - legacies of that remarkable scholar, Mancur Olson.'
Professor Dr Bruno S. Frey, Kyklos
`Olson is able to derive fascinating and relevant conclusions.'
Professor Dr Bruno S. Frey, Kyklos
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0198293690
- ISBN 13 9780198293699
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
- EditorOlson Mancur, Kähkönen Satu
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