MSUM
Library
MSUM
Library
honors the 2005 promotion/tenure of
Steven Bolduc
Economics
Yonay, Yuval. The Struggle Over the Soul of
Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Dr. Bolduc chose this book because:
“Academic economics is increasingly concerned with elegant technique over substantive causal explanations of economic dynamics. Some have even argued that economics is peculiar in that the mode of inquiry defines the discipline rather than the domain of inquiry. Yuval Yonay explains the process by which this situation has developed rather than merely justifying the developments ex post facto as the inevitable outcome of competition in the marketplace of ideas – as the more orthodox histories of the discipline have done.”