Review of Economic Rules by Dani Rodrik
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
9-2017
Publication Title
Eastern Economic Journal
DOI
10.1057/s41302-017-0102-5
ISSN
1939-4632
Abstract
Dani Rodrik’s Economics Rules stands as a tactful, evenhanded assessment of the terms and parameters characterizing the conduct of economics, the insights gained from operating within those bounds and the costs borne from straying outside of them. In defense of the discipline’s perception as a “reductionist approach to social phenomena” pursuing “universal claims,” Prof. Rodrik places the pluralism of context-specific models at center stage. At its core, Economics Rules argues that knowledge in the field “advances horizontally” through the multiplicative diversity of models to explain circumstantial outcomes. But, from a normative perspective, is that a good thing?
Recommended Citation
Mangee, Nicholas.
2017.
"Review of Economic Rules by Dani Rodrik."
Eastern Economic Journal, 43 (4): 737-739: Springer.
doi: 10.1057/s41302-017-0102-5 source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41302-017-0102-5
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