Fact and fiction in economics : models, realism and social construction /
Bringing together some of the leading figures in the methodology and philosophy of economics, this collection provides a thoughtful and balanced overview of the current state of debate about the nature and limits of economic knowledge.
| Други автори: | Maki, Uskali. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120301 |
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Fact and fiction in economics. |
Съдържание:
- I. Introduction:
- Dismal queen of the social sciences /
- Uskali Maki
- II. Setting the scene:
- Ugly currents in modern economics /
- Mark Blaug
- Modern economics and its critics /
- Partha Dasgupta
- Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics /
- Uskali Maki
- III. Economic models and economic reality:
- Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics /
- Robert Sugden
- Limits of causal order, from economics to physics /
- Nancy Cartwright
- Econometrics and reality /
- Kevin D. Hoover
- Models, stories, and the economic world /
- Mary S. Morgan
- Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods /
- Roger E. Backhouse
- Truthlikeness and economic theories /
- Ilkka Niiniluoto
- IV. The constitution of economic reality:
- Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" /
- Philip Pettit
- Reality of common cultures /
- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
- Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality /
- Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer
- Hayek and cultural evolution /
- Bruce Caldwell
- Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" /
- Neil De Marchi
- V. The institutions of economics:
- You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric /
- Deirdre N. McCloskey
- More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies /
- D. Wade Hands
- Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? /
- Jesus P. Zamora Bonilla.