Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1992-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521417402
This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics. Cumulatively they offer fresh perspectives on foundational questions such as: what sort of science is economics? and how successful can economists be in acquiring knowledge of their subject matter?
Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 11,65 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 : Daniel Little
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1995-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792394945
This volume represents a contribution to the philosophy of economics with a distinctive point of view -- the contributors have selected particular areas of economics and have probed these areas for the philosophical and methodological issues that they raise. The primary essays are written by philosophers concentrating on philosophical issues that arise at the level of the everyday theoretical practice of working economists. Commentary essays are provided by working economists responding to the philosophical arguments from the standpoint of their own disciplines. The volume thus represents something of an `experiment' in the philosophy of science, striving as it does to explore methodological issues across two research communities. The purpose of the volume is very specific: to stimulate a discussion of the epistemology and methodology of economics that works at the level of detail of existing `best practice' in economics today. The contributors have designed their contributions to stimulate productive conversation between philosophers and economists on topics in the methodology of economics.
Author : John Bryan Davis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A multidisciplinary reference in which over 100 commissioned essays provide details of topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduce a variety of emerging themes that economic methodologists have begun to explore. The encyclopedia- type articles discuss such topics as aggregation, evolutionary economics, Otto Neurath, survey methods, Thorstein Veblen, selectionist arguments, the marginalist controversy, game theory, economic sociology, and causality. Each includes an extensive bibliography. Practicing economists and students of the philosophy or history of economics might find useful information and an entry into deeper investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bruce Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,84 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 : R. H. Coase
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226111032
How do economists tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In 15 essays, Coase explore the history and philosophy of economics and evaluates the contributions of a number of outstanding figures.
Author : Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521867010
A team of world-renowned experts cast new light on Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics'.
Author : Milton Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226264033
This paper is concerned primarily with certain methodological problems that arise in constructing the "distinct positive science" that John Neville Keynes called for, in particular, the problem how to decide whether a suggested hypothesis or theory should be tentatively accepted as part of the "body of systematized knowledge concerning what is."
Author : Barbara Montero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135986452
Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in the economics discourse. Choice, while not always a conscious or rational process, is held to involve beliefs, desires, intentions and arguably even free will. Actions are often opposed to mere bodily movements, with the former being in some sense only understandable in reference to mental processes while the latter are understandable in entirely non-mental, physical terms. While philosophers have long concerned themselves with the connections between these concepts, economists have tended to steer clear of what might appear to be an a priori debate. At the same time, philosophers working on these important notions have tended to not dirty their hands with the empirical, real-world applications in which economists are specialized. This volume fills these gaps by bringing economists and philosophers of mind together to explore the intersection of their disciplines.
