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New Directions in Economic Methodology

โœ Scribed by Backhouse, Roger E

Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Leaves
404
Series
Economics as social theory
Category
Library
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Cover; New Directions in Economic Methodology; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology; Part I. General Perspectives; 2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics; 3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers; 4. What Are the Questions?; 5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities; Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against; 6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian; 7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice.;While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists.

โœฆ Table of Contents

Cover
New Directions in Economic Methodology
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology
Part I. General Perspectives
2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics
3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers
4. What Are the Questions?
5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities
Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against
6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian
7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice. 8. Scientific Thinking Without Scientific Method: Two Views of PopperPart III. Philosophical Perspectives on Economics
10. Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics
11. What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory?
12. Reorienting the Assumptions Issue
13. A Realist Theory for Economics
14. Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method
Part IV. Economics as Discourse
15. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why
16. Metaphor and Economics
17. The Economy as Text
Index.

โœฆ Subjects

Economics;Economics--Methodology;Electronic books;Economics -- Methodology

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