considered not only his latest but also his most relevant analysis concerning social sciences and the role of economics in … economics, this paper argues that Schumpeter could also, perhaps primarily, be interpreted as a well-reasoning institutionalist …

differences of how the transformation problem has been interpreted, why it was put to rest in mainstream economics and how it has … regained prominence in Marxian economics. …

economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework. The first systematic …, however, income comparisons continued to play a role in much of Keynesian inspired and Behavioural economics literature. In … the last few years it has made a strong comeback in the literature of job satisfaction and of the economics of happiness …

This is Chapter 7 from Social Economics: An Alternative Theory (St. Martin's Press, 1991) Since Alfred Marshall's time … chapter the author takes a somewhat impressionistic look at the sociology of the field of economics. Given a discipline which …