The New World of Economics: A Review Article

L. Officer, Leanna Stiefel
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In the March 1975 issue of this journal, Alan Randall used four recently published books as leading indicators to delineate certain trends in the presentation of introductory economics.' As a companion piece to Randall's article, we examine a work that can be viewed as a culmination of the tendencies noted by him. If we are more critical than he in our assessment, it is because the book under consideration-The New World of Economics, by Richard B. McKenzie and Gordon Tullock-is more extreme in its approach to basic economics.2 Several features of the publications reviewed by Randall are present in the McKenzie-Tullock volume: a concentration on microrather than macroeconomics, a selection of substantive topics that are "relevant" rather than "traditional," and a claim to be pursuing positive rather than normative economics. Yet, McKenzie and Tullock differ from the other authors in three respects. First, they abandon any reference at all to traditional economic topics. Second, they write in an extremely forceful and provocative style, advocating economic concepts and principles above those of all other disciplines. Third, they adopt a single focal
经济学的新世界:一篇评论文章
在本刊1975年3月刊上,艾伦·兰德尔(Alan Randall)用四本最近出版的书作为主要指标,描绘了介绍经济学入门的某些趋势。作为兰德尔文章的配套作品,我们研究了一件可以被视为他所注意到的趋势的高潮的作品。如果我们在评估中比他更具批判性,那是因为我们正在考虑的这本书——理查德·b·麦肯齐和戈登·图洛克合著的《经济学的新世界》——在基本经济学的研究方法上更为极端兰德尔所评论的出版物的几个特点出现在麦肯齐-图洛克卷中:关注微观经济学而不是宏观经济学,选择“相关”而不是“传统”的实质性主题,并声称追求积极经济学而不是规范经济学。然而,麦肯齐和塔洛克在三个方面与其他作者不同。首先,他们完全不提及任何传统的经济话题。其次,他们以一种极其有力和挑衅的风格写作,主张经济概念和原则高于所有其他学科的概念和原则。第三,他们采用单一焦点
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