A Not-so-dismal Science

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.

(Oxford)

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Introduction - the broader view; big bills left on the sidewalk - why some nations are rich and others poor; innovation and its enemies - the economic and political roots of technological inertia; economic institutions and development - a view from the bottom; dictatorship, democracy, and development; overstrong against thyself - war, the state, and growth in Europe on the eve of the industrial revolution; the Swedish model - a comment on Mancur Olson's analysis; affirmative action and reservations in the American and Indian labour markets - are they really that bad?; communities and development - Autarkic social groups and the economy; law from order - economic development and the jurisprudence of social norms; the nature of institutional impediments to economic development.

(Oxford)