Synopses & Reviews
Robert F. Garnett has brought together leading economic theorists to provide a provocative rethinking of the classic questions of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Drawing from a range of perspectives, from postmodernism to critical realism, it casts fresh light on the relationship between the producers and consumers of economic knowledge, both academic and non-academic.
Challenging the "ivory tower" view of economists as disinterested producers of scientific knowledge against the unscientific economics of the lay person, the contributors advance a vision of economic knowledge as irreducibly plural and dispersed, rather than as a unified accumulation of academic thought.