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- Argues that economic vocabulary and paradigms are not keeping up with economic changes
- Breaks down social constructs around the words "inequality" and "wealth"
- Challenges the assumption of value-free economic terms
- Tracks how human motivations were understood from biblical through modern times
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Book Title: The Language of Economics
Book Subtitle: Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions
Authors: Robert E. Mitchell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33981-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33980-1Published: 09 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33981-8Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 131
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic History, Cultural Economics