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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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham :
E. Elgar,
1997
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| Series: | Advances in economic methodology
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Table of Contents:
- 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