Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science

✍ Scribed by Marcel Boumans, John Davis

Publisher: Red Globe Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Edition: Second Edition, 2nd
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Received View of Science
Methodologies of Positive Economics
Popper’s Logic of Discovery
Kuhn and Lakatos
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism
Value Judgments in Economics
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index

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