Book Description
This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.
Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521883504
This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.
Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107717264
This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.
Author : Marcel Boumans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137545577
Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this introduction to the field of economic methodology. By doing this they strengthen students' understanding of economics as a science to enhance their reasoning skills, introducing them to the wider philosophical issues surrounding our understanding of the area.
Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317680960
The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability in economics. In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences. He concludes that model building in economics reflects more the methodological prescriptions of the economist Paul Samuelson than Popper’s ‘falsificationism’. This title will prove invaluable to both students and researchers, and represents a substantial contribution to debates about the scientific status of economics.
Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9780415285940
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
Author : D. Wade Hands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521797962
This book is a comprehensive and often controversial survey of economic methodology.
Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1994-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134864396
In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. Its contributors are responsible for the major developments in this field and tog
Author : Lawrence Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134778090
Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much 'methodology for methodology's sake' and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory.
Author : Bruce Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134838638
Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book‘s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi
Author : Thomas Boylan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134358504
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This