Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have \'outsourced\' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines....

With its roots in history and eyes on the future, this book traces the development of our economic society from the Middle Ages to the present, offering a balanced perspective of why our economy is the way it is and where it may be headed. It explores the catalytic role past economic trends and dynamics?particularly capitalism?...

A deep and widespread crisis affects modern economic theory, a crisis that derives from the absence of a \"vision\"--a set of widely shared political and social preconceptions--on which all economics ultimately depends....