The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guida

Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and deh

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

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This volume aims to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, and why some communities prosper while others stagnate, so economics must be seen as em