Development, geography and economic theory (Record no. 71302)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262611350
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Classification number 338.9 KRU
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Personal name Krugman, Paul
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Title Development, geography and economic theory
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2002
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Extent 117 p.
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Price amount 750.49
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Summary, etc. Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. Krugman examines the course of economic geograph and development theory to shed light on the nature of economic inquiry. He traces how development theory lost its huge initial influence and virtually disappeared from economic discourse after it became clear that many of the theory's main insights could not be clearly modeled. Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, as economists shied away from grappling with questions about space-such as the size, location, or even existence of cities-because the "terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools at hand." Krugman's book, however, is not a call to abandon economic modeling. He concludes with a reminder of why insisting on the use of models may be right, even when these sometimes lead economists to overlook good ideas. He also recaps the discussion of development and economic geography with a commentary on recent developments in those fields and areas where further inquiry looks most promising.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Development economics-History
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