Economic methodology : an historical introduction /
The story begins with John Stuart Mill's seminal essay from 1836 on the definition and method of political economy, which is then followed by an examination of how the actual practices of economists changed over time to such an extent that they not only altered their methods of enquiry, but als...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2014
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| Series: | Economic as social theory ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Economics: inductive or deductive science?
- 3. Economics and ststistics
- 4. Business-cycle research: the rise of modelling
- 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: the dramatist and the model-builder
- 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Economteric Research: structural models and ´as if´ methodology
- 7. Modelling between fact and fiction: thought experiments in economics
- 8. Experimentation in economics
- 9. Simulation with models
- 10. Economics as science: the rules of the game.