modern economics

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandeconomics

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/
us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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economics
noun[U]
uk
/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪks/
us
/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪks/
the way in which trade, industry, or money is organized, or the study ...
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(Definition ofmodernandeconomicsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We shall argue that our eighteenth-century writers had a more open understanding of rationality than is characteristic ofmoderneconomics.
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The search for the instrumental worth of institutions, activities, and goods has been a recurring feature ofmoderneconomics.
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However,moderneconomicsadmits wide-ranging interpretations of utility.
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But the book is also a reminder of the limitations ofmoderneconomicsif separated too rigidly from other social science disciplines.
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This suggestion is based on a well-known theorem inmoderneconomics.
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It has been a recurring theme inmoderneconomics.
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Moderneconomicsstudies diverse collections of pluralist agents.
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Sections 2 and 3 build on the model to offer an account of the ethical foundations ofmoderneconomics.
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We are discussing what can be said in the language of preferences - that is, in the language ofmoderneconomics.
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A number of ethicists have concluded from this near-exclusive interest in facts thatmoderneconomicsmust be an ethical desert.
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So, the ethical foundations ofmoderneconomicsare regarded as unspoken assumptions in research publications.
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Moderneconomicsis built on broad ethical foundations, capable of being reduced as special cases to the various ethical theories that are currently on offer.
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The writers we examine were contemporaries, writing in the period whenmoderneconomicswas beginning to take shape.
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Throughout the history ofmoderneconomicsthere has been struggle, sometimes open, sometimes hidden, between two notions of equilibrium.
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There is, unfortunately, a profusion of technical terms inmoderneconomics.
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I also discovered thatmoderneconomicshas recently been much criticized by a number of ethicists for its alleged ethical barrenness.
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A pure mathematician who is a renowned economist, he has been a central figure in developing game theory and establishing its key role inmoderneconomics.
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It responds to a recent complaint of ethicists, that the model of human agency adopted inmoderneconomicsis inapplicable to circumstances where people face tragic choices.
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