Thinking Like an Economist: The Neoliberal Politics of the Economics Textbook

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 157-185

  Zuidhof, Peter Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

introductory economics textbook; liberalism; market based government; neoliberalism; thinking like an economist

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900000564     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.872952     Document Type: Article

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