This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds.

This book presents an updated analysis of the cluttered landscape of studies of consumption that will make it required reading for students from a wide range of backgrounds including political economy, history and social science courses ...

Lack of interest from students has led economists to question the relevance of their subject & some have concluded that it has lost touch with reality.

An analysis of the cluttered landscape of studies of consumption examining themes such as the world of commodities, economic imperialism and globalization and the consumer society.

Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.

An analysis of the cluttered landscape of studies of consumption examining themes such as the world of commodities, economic imperialism and globalization and the consumer society.

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money.

In the opinion of many people the last decade saw the arrival of the `consumer society'.

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money.

The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way.