Thinking and Acting Outside the Neo-classical Economic Box: Reply to McMurtry

This paper responds to Professor John McMurtry, primarily to his critique (Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 44, 2003) of my recent book, Economics as Moral Science (Springer-Verlag, 2001). Although agreeing with my attribution of a moral a priorism” to orthodox or neo-classical economics, McMurtry t...

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Main Author: Hodgson, Bernard (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2005
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 289-303
Further subjects:B Neo-classical economics
B scientific rationality
B moral values
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