Methodology For A New Microeconomics Routledge Revivals

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
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Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317680901

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Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

First published in 1986, this title argues that the successful development of a new microeconomics requires a deeper understanding of methodological individualism and its role in stability analysis. Lawrence Boland expounds a critique of neoclassical models, which, he contends, often fail to include an explicit stability analysis. He demonstrates that much of the sophisticated theoretical literature over the past thirty years can be understood as ad hoc attempts to overcome the deficiencies of such models in the absence of cogent stability analyses. In conclusion, he explains the need to update the theory taught at universities, and to develop a truly individualist version of microeconomics that is consistent with the methodological principles of major neoclassical models. An important contribution to economic methodology, this work is a highly valuable resource for all students and teachers of economics at the undergraduate level.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317680895

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Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

First published in 1986, this title argues that the successful development of a new microeconomics requires a deeper understanding of methodological individualism and its role in stability analysis. Lawrence Boland expounds a critique of neoclassical models, which, he contends, often fail to include an explicit stability analysis. He demonstrates that much of the sophisticated theoretical literature over the past thirty years can be understood as ad hoc attempts to overcome the deficiencies of such models in the absence of cogent stability analyses. In conclusion, he explains the need to update the theory taught at universities, and to develop a truly individualist version of microeconomics that is consistent with the methodological principles of major neoclassical models. An important contribution to economic methodology, this work is a highly valuable resource for all students and teachers of economics at the undergraduate level.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Microeconomics
ISBN : 1138776335

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Methodology for a New Microeconomics by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

Author : David Currie,David Peel,Will Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317214892

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Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals) by David Currie,David Peel,Will Peters Pdf

First published in 1981, this book brings together a collection of essays on microeconomics and development presented at the conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics. Topics covered include the intergenerational transfer of economic inequality, a review of the recent development in the theory of equity in the economy’s distribution and production process, labour and unemployment, market structure and international trade, taxation and the public sector, Third World industrialisation and Indian agriculture. This book will be of interest to students of Economics and Development Studies.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317680963

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The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability in economics. In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences. He concludes that model building in economics reflects more the methodological prescriptions of the economist Paul Samuelson than Popper’s ‘falsificationism’. This title will prove invaluable to both students and researchers, and represents a substantial contribution to debates about the scientific status of economics.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1138776319

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The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences.

Author : Patrick O'Sullivan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136736902

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Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals) by Patrick O'Sullivan Pdf

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing. In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch critique of the epistemological relativism which must lie at the root of the whole post-modernist approach; and in reasserting the fundamental importance not only for the methods of science but also for European civilisation of the pursuit of truth it takes a stance which is very much against the tide of the times. A heterodox perspective is also provided and defended in detail regarding the real nature of economic methodology whereby it is shown that Economics epitomises a teleological mode of explanation which is significantly different from the efficient causal modes of explanation of the natural sciences. In fact Economics is the ultimate subjectivist/interpretative discipline in the methodological sense of Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, a fact which has only been recognised (and welcomed) in the Austrian school of Economics.

Author : Vincent Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317511069

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Essays in Economic Theory (Routledge Revivals) by Vincent Crawford Pdf

Essays in Economic Theory, first published in 1983, combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, "Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative Equilibrium", considers whether an adaptive justification, like those commonly available for the optimization models frequently employed elsewhere in economics, can be found for the Nash noncooperative equilibrium. The second essay, "A Game of Fair Division", was motivated by the desire to find attractive methods for solving allocation problems and bargaining disputes that are simple enough to provide useful alternatives to existing methods. It studies in detail one such simple method: the classical "divide-and-choose" procedure. This book will be of interest to students of economics.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9780415096379

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New Directions in Economic Methodology by Roger Backhouse Pdf

While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists.

Author : B Axelsson,G Easton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317244585

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Industrial Networks (Routledge Revivals) by B Axelsson,G Easton Pdf

First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an area in its own right. By looking at the foundations of industrial networks and analysing network methodology and modelling, this book offers an integrated and coherent approach to the whole area. Covering small group analysis, network change processes and implications for business strategy, and presenting new ways to exploit inter-organisational relationships in the face of change, it tackles key issues with important implications for the future. This book will be of interest to students of economics and business.

Author : David Currie,David Peel,Will Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317214885

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Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals) by David Currie,David Peel,Will Peters Pdf

First published in 1981, this book brings together a collection of essays on microeconomics and development presented at the conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics. Topics covered include the intergenerational transfer of economic inequality, a review of the recent development in the theory of equity in the economy’s distribution and production process, labour and unemployment, market structure and international trade, taxation and the public sector, Third World industrialisation and Indian agriculture. This book will be of interest to students of Economics and Development Studies.

Author : Victoria Chick
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0415232198

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Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick: Methodology, microeconomics, and Keynes by Victoria Chick Pdf

This volume, a companion to Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes, represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in Keynesian methodology and microeconomics by leading figures in these fields.

Author : David Currie,Will Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317215097

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Contemporary Economic Analysis (Routledge Revivals) by David Currie,Will Peters Pdf

First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates. They include new theoretical points, criticisms of existing theory, the reporting of empirical studies and their implications, and refinements of methodological techniques. Among the topics covered are government deficits and capital accumulation; macroeconomic issues of management policy and foreign trade; empirical studies of foreign exchange markets, and supply and demand of hours of work; public sector and welfare economics; risk and uncertainty; and monopoly, competition and markets.

Author : E. J. Mishan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317528043

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Elements of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Routledge Revivals) by E. J. Mishan Pdf

This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication. Nor is it a manual of instruction with particular orientation for less developed counties, such as those produced under the auspices of the U.N. and the O.E.C.D. What this volume does attempt is to introduce the student of economics to the logic and the concepts used in cost-benefit analysis.

Author : Keith Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136832444

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Problems of Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals) by Keith Hartley Pdf

First published in 1977, this is an applied economics text, in which the basic theory of any introductory economics couurse is applied to a whole range of UK macro- and micro-economic policy issues. The book is designed specifically for first and second year university students, with the aim of demonstrating the relevance of theory to policy, how theory can be applied to policy problems and, in the process, to improve their understanding of the theory itself.