Reason and reality in the methodologies of economics : an introduction /

This highly original new book examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practising economists. It studies how they evaluate their theories, the relationship between those theories and the phenomena they are intended to represent, and the philosophy, methodology and scientif...

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Main Author: Fox, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham : E. Elgar, 1997
Series:Advances in economic methodology
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300 |a xi, 142 p. :   |b il. 
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505 0 |a List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1. Is there a crisis in economics? -- 2. How do economists know what they know? -- 3. What is methodology? --4. Economics as positivism and falsificationism -- 5. Economics as prediction -- 6. Economics as deduction -- 7. Economics as realism -- 8. Economics as conversation and rhetoric -- 9. Is economics a science? -- References -- Index 
520 3 |a This highly original new book examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practising economists. It studies how they evaluate their theories, the relationship between those theories and the phenomena they are intended to represent, and the philosophy, methodology and scientific credentials of economics. It examines the tension between economics as the logic of rational choice and as a predictive science, that is reason and reality respectively. 
524 |a Cómo citar éste libro con Normas APA: Fox, G. (1997). Reason and reality in the methodologies of economics : an introduction. E. Elgar. 
526 0 |a Bibliografía de la asignatura Metodología de la Economía. Licenciatura en Economía (plan 2009), 2do semestre.  
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