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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 together they give an account of all the major positions which currently prevail in economic methodology. These include attempts to rehabilitate the 'falsification' of Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper, sociology of knowledge approaches, different forms of realism, contributions from the 'rhetoric' project and other perspectives which view the economy as a text.
Book Cover......Page 0
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
INTRODUCTION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY......Page 12
ENDS AND MEANS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMICS......Page 38
THE ART OF ECONOMICS BY THE NUMBERS......Page 46
WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS?......Page 61
THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE POSSIBILITIES......Page 86
WHY I AM NOT A CONSTRUCTIVIST: CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT POPPERIAN......Page 120
TWO PROPOSALS FOR THE RECOVERY OF ECONOMIC PRACTICE......Page 148
SCIENTIFIC THINKING WITHOUT SCIENTIFIC METHOD: TWO VIEWS OF POPPER......Page 165
THE LAKATOSIAN LEGACY IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY......Page 184
KUHN, LAKATOS AND THE CHARACTER OF ECONOMICS......Page 206
WHAT IS THE COGNITIVE STATUS OF ECONOMIC THEORY?......Page 227
REORIENTING THE ASSUMPTIONS ISSUE......Page 247
A REALIST THEORY FOR ECONOMICS......Page 268
PRAGMATISM, PRAGMATICISM AND ECONOMIC METHOD......Page 297
HOW TO DO A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS, AND WHY......Page 330
METAPHOR AND ECONOMICS......Page 354
THE ECONOMY AS TEXT......Page 379
Index......Page 394
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