Calling out neoclassical economics as ＂an ideologically driven pseudo-science whose power comes from successfully hiding, as opposed to revealing, the true nature of our social, political, and
economic relations,＂ Varoufakis (economic theory, U. of Athens, Greece), argues that its failures come from being defined by methodological individualism, methodological instrumentalism, and
methodological equilibration. The first two provide a sophisticated complexity, he argues, but also introduce a specter of indeterminacy that generates evolutionary and social forces that gives
rise within the discipline to demands for stringent equilibration, thus masking its failures. After explaining the way this ＂dance of the meta-axioms＂ works in neoclassical economics, he
presents 12 chapters that reproduce his work over the course of his career in trying to find alternatives to this methodological trap through the embrace of indeterminacy. Annotation ©2013 Book
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