Fact And Fiction In Economics

Author : Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052100957X

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Fact and Fiction in Economics by Uskali Mäki Pdf

There is an embarrassing polarization of opinions about the status of economics as an academic discipline, as reflected in epithets such as the Dismal Science and the Queen of the Social Sciences. This collection brings together some of the leading figures in the methodology and philosophy of economics to provide a thoughtful and balanced overview of the current state of debate about the nature and limits of economic knowledge. Authors with partly rival and partly complementary perspectives examine how abstract models work and how they might connect with the real world, they look at the special nature of the facts about the economy, and they direct attention towards the academic institutions themselves and how they shape economic research. These issues are thus analysed from the point of view of methodology, semantics, ontology, rhetoric, sociology, and economics of science.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465026302

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Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Pdf

Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economics fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries. One of the themes of Economic Facts and Fallacies is that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power-and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important, as well as sometimes humorous. Written in the easy-to-follow style of the author's Basic Economics, this latest book is able to go into greater depth, with real world examples, on specific issues.

Author : G. Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393978532

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Fact and Fiction in the Global Economy by G. Garrett Pdf

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool,Marilyn A. Brown,Scott V. Valentine
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421418971

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Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy by Benjamin K. Sovacool,Marilyn A. Brown,Scott V. Valentine Pdf

A balanced examination of global energy issues. Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy questions from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating how, for each of them, no clear-cut answer exists. Is industry the chief energy villain? Can we sustainably feed and fuel the planet at the same time? Is nuclear energy worth the risk? Should geoengineering be outlawed? Touching on pollution, climate mitigation and adaptation, energy efficiency, government intervention, and energy security, the authors explore interrelated concepts of law, philosophy, ethics, technology, economics, psychology, sociology, and public policy. This book offers a much-needed critical appraisal of the central energy technology and policy dilemmas of our time and the impact of these on multiple stakeholders.

Author : Aki Lehtinen,Jaakko Kuorikoski,Petri Ylikoski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136513268

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Economics for Real by Aki Lehtinen,Jaakko Kuorikoski,Petri Ylikoski Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics.

Author : Michael H. Turk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317611929

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The Idea of History in Constructing Economics by Michael H. Turk Pdf

How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting with classical mechanics. At the same time economics is likely to be seen in opposition to or in contrast with history, where the reliance upon generalizing rules, thought experiments, and model construction in economics is set against the amassing of particular facts intended to create narratives in history. In this new volume, Turk explores the relationship between economics and history, including the often fraught one between economics and economic history, making the case that economics does in fact require the proper grounding in history that has so often been ignored. This work challenges the attempt to link economics with other, more clearly ‘scientific’ disciplines as flawed and fundamentally wrongheaded. A key element of this book is its examination of the gaps and associations that exist in, or are seen through, linkages with thermodynamics, classical mechanics , biology, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and sociology. This exploration is frequently undertaken through study of the work of one or more major figures in the history of economic thought, ranging from Quesnay and Smith, through Walras and Max Weber, to Robinson, Krugman, David, and Arthur. Through the possibility of an alternative to the gaps noted in each such comparison, the underlying, necessary connection between economics and history can be brought out. The book concludes by exploring the basis for the positive construction of a historical economics. This book is suited for those who study history of economic thought and philosophy of economics.

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576755129

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Pdf

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Author : Jacob Goldstein
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316417181

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Money by Jacob Goldstein Pdf

The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.

Author : Jacques-Henri Coste,Vincent Dussol
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030365646

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The Fictions of American Capitalism by Jacques-Henri Coste,Vincent Dussol Pdf

The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three narratives—fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic novel—the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to illustrate the American economy’s dependence on fictitiousness, America’s ideological fictions, and the nation’s creative literary fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of 2007–2008 exposed about the “unreal” base of the economy, the volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities, arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can provide a useful mirror for economists.

Author : Edward Atkinson
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649270290

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Facts and Figures, the Basis of Economic Science by Edward Atkinson Pdf

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Author : Bradley Ryner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748684663

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Performing Economic Thought by Bradley Ryner Pdf

This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. He shows that playwrights' manipulation of specific elements of theatrical representation - such as metaphor, props, dramatic character, stage space, audience interaction, and genre - exacerbated the tension between the aspects of the world taken into account by a particular representation and those aspects that it neglects.

Author : William Davies
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781906897680

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Economic Science Fictions by William Davies Pdf

An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics. From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking. Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms. With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists. Contributors AUDINT, Khairani Barokka, Carina Brand, Ha-Joon Chang, Miriam Cherry, William Davies, Mark Fisher, Dan Gavshon-Brady and James Pockson, Owen Hatherley, Laura Horn, Tim Jackson, Mark Johnson, Bastien Kerspern, Nora O Murchú, Tobias Revell et al., Judy Thorne, Sherryl Vint, Joseph Walton, Brian Willems

Author : Piya Mahtaney
Publisher : Pelanduk Publications Sdn Bhd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9679788210

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The Economic Con-game by Piya Mahtaney Pdf

"Through a narrative of the misconceptions and misconstrued notions that have blinkered economic judgement for decades, Piya Mahtaney argues that the underpinnings of economic terrorism are embodied in the stark contrasts between unbridled affluence ensconced in minuscule enclaves and unrelenting endemic poverty." "We may finally have arrived at the crux of contemporary economics which impinges not so much on evaluating the commercial profitability of globalisation as it does on examining two distinct possibilities that will decide the economic destiny for a long time to come. Either globalism can result in development or it cannot. If it can - although so far it hasn't - then its limitations have to be surmounted, and if its purview does not extend beyond tactical commercialism then the immense hype about it in recent years is meaningless." "Is there a crisis of imagination or are there deeper issues at stake? In answering this crucial question, Mahtaney looks at the dilemmas and paradoxes that befuddle strategic thinking on the subject and in so doing reveals a sinister fact: there exists a crisis of implementation that is perpetrated by a medley of vested interests which deliberately flout the rulebook of sound economics to make decisions that benefit the superstructure and adversely impact the majority of us."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Barbara J. Flowers,Penny Kugler,Bonnie T. Meszaros,Layna Stiles,Mary C. Suiter
Publisher : Council for Economic Educat
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1561835358

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Focus, Grades 3-5 Economics by Barbara J. Flowers,Penny Kugler,Bonnie T. Meszaros,Layna Stiles,Mary C. Suiter Pdf

Fourteen lesson plans uses a unique blend of games, simulations, role playing activities that illustrate economics in a way every elementary student will enjoy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781490109503

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Issues in General Economic Research and Application: 2013 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in General Economic Research and Application: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Theoretical Economics. The editors have built Issues in General Economic Research and Application: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Theoretical Economics in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in General Economic Research and Application: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.