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Before the ascent of postwar neoclassical economics, fierce debates raged, as many different visions of the economy circulated and competed with one another. In The Real Economy, Jonathan Levy returns to the spirit of this earlier era, which, in all its contentiousness, gave birth to the discipline of economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview:A provocative new theory of \u201cthe economy,\u201d its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics.What is the economy, really? Is it a \u201cmarket sector,\u201d a \u201cgeneral equilibrium,\u201d or the \u201cgross domestic product\u201d? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists risk losing sight of the economy itself. 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