Putting Jurisprudence Back Into Economics

What is Really Wrong With Today's Neoclassical Theory

David Ellerman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 186 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-76095-3 (ISBN)

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This book presents an integrated jurisprudential critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory. It explains what is 'really wrong' with the theory both descriptively, as well as normatively. The criticism presented is based on questions of jurisprudence, and on neoclassical theory's sins of omission and commission concerning the underlying system of property and contract. On the positive side - while the presentation is almost entirely non-mathematical - the book contains the first mathematical treatment of the fundamental theorem about property and contract in jurisprudence that underlies a market economy.
The book follows the tradition of John Stuart Mill as the last major political economist who considered the study of property rights as an integral part of economic theory. The conceptual criticisms presented in this book focus on the descriptive and normative misconceptions about property and contracts that are deeply embedded ideology in neoclassical economics, not to mention in the broader society. The book recognizes that the idealized microeconomic theory is not descriptive of reality and focuses its criticism on conceptual mistakes in the theory, which are even clearer due to the idealized nature of the theory.
Therefore, the book is a must-read for scholars, researchers, and students interested in a better understanding of jurisprudence in economics, neoclassical microeconomic theory, and political economy in general.

lt;b> David Ellerman is an Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2003 he retired to academia after 10 years at the World Bank where he was the economic advisor and speech-writer for the Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz. In his prior university teaching, Ellerman taught over a twenty-year period in the Boston area in five disciplines: economics, mathematics, computer science, operations research, and accounting. He was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and at Boston University where he has two masters degrees, one in philosophy and one in economics, and a doctorate in mathematics. Ellerman has published seven previous books and many articles in scholarly journals in economics, logic, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and law.

Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Property and Contract.- Mathematical Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Property and Contract.- The Property Fallacy in Capital Theory and Corporate Finance Theory.- The Arrow-Debreu Model.- Marginal Productivity Theory.- Marxism as the Ultimate 'Capitalist Tool'.- The Logical Fallacy in Cost-Benefit Analysis and Law & Economics.- Jurisprudence and the Corporate Governance Debate.- Invalidity of Personhood Alienation Contracts.- Concluding Remarks About Jurisprudence and Neoclassical Economics.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.06.2021
Zusatzinfo	XII, 186 p. 39 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Appropriation fallacy • arbitrage theory • Arrow-Debreu Model • Capital Theory • Corporate Finance Theory • economic realities • Employment system • invisible Hand • John Stuart Mill • Marginal Productivity Theory • Market Economy • Neoclassical microeconomic theory • price system • Private property rights • Property and contract • Property mechanism • property theory • Rights-based normative economics • Theory of Inalienable Rights
ISBN-10	3-030-76095-2 / 3030760952
ISBN-13	978-3-030-76095-3 / 9783030760953
Zustand	Neuware