Reason And Reality In The Methodologies Of Economics

Author : Glenn Fox
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022370147

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Reason and Reality in the Methodologies of Economics by Glenn Fox Pdf

An introduction to the major schools of thought in economics. Examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practicing economists, studying how economists evaluate theories, the relationship between theories and the phenomena they are supposed to represent, and the philosophy, methodology, and scientific credentials of economics. Surveys five influential schools of thought in the methodology of economics, and discusses the purposes of economic inquiry and legitimate sources of economic knowledge. For students and scholars of economics, philosophy, and economic methodology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Tony Lawson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415154200

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Economics and Reality by Tony Lawson Pdf

Discusses and critiques the current practice of economics.

Author : Fritz Machlup
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483271439

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Methodology of Economics and Other Social Sciences by Fritz Machlup Pdf

Methodology of Economics and Other Social Sciences covers the problems in the methodological aspects of economics and other social science disciplines. This book is organized into seven parts encompassing 26 chapters. The first parts review the nature and significance of methodology of economics, along with the models and theories in the field. The succeeding parts deal with the verification problems, operational concepts, and interpretation of reality in economics. Other parts explore the methodological aspects of other social sciences. The last parts discuss some aspects and applications of economic methodologies. This book will be of value to economists, social scientists, and researchers.

Author : Ian M. T. Stewart
Publisher : London ; New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B3513736

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Reasoning and Method in Economics by Ian M. T. Stewart Pdf

Author : Ricardo F. Crespo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429842085

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The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences by Ricardo F. Crespo Pdf

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application. The above viewpoints are undertaken by different but related economic sciences, including statistics and economic history, positive economics, normative economics, and the ‘art of political economy’. Typically, positive economics has analysed economic phenomena using the second approach, causally explaining and often trying to predict the future evolution of the economy. It has not been concerned with the ends selected by the individual or society, taking them as given. However, various new economic currents have emerged during the last 40 years, and some of these do assign a fundamental role to ends within economics. This book argues that the field of positive economics should adapt to deal with the issues that arise from this. The text attempts to discern the nature of economic phenomena, introducing the different approaches and corresponding economic sciences. It goes on to analyse the epistemological characteristics of these in the subsequent chapters, as well as their disciplinary interrelations. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of the social sciences, philosophy, and the philosophy of economics. It will also be of interest to those researching political economy and the development of economic thought.

Author : Uskali Mäki,Bo Gustafsson,Christian Knudsen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415092086

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Rationality, Institutions, and Economic Methodology by Uskali Mäki,Bo Gustafsson,Christian Knudsen Pdf

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Aki Lehtinen,Jaakko Kuorikoski,Petri Ylikoski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Peter Róna,László Zsolnai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319945293

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Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics by Peter Róna,László Zsolnai Pdf

This book examines the nature of economic objects that form the subject matter of economics, and studies how they resemble or differ from the objects studied by the natural sciences. It explores the question of whether economic objects created by modern economics sufficiently represent economic reality, and confronts the question whether tools, techniques and the methodology borrowed from the natural sciences are appropriate for the analysis of economic reality. It demonstrates the unsustainability of rational choice theory. It looks at economic agents, such as individuals, groups, legally constituted entities, algorithms, or robots, how they function and how they are represented in economics. The volume further examines the extent, if any, that mathematics can represent the objects of the economy, such as supply and demand, equilibrium, marginal utility, or the money supply as they actually occur in the economy, and as they are represented in economics. Finally, the volume explores whether the subject matter of economics – however defined – is the proper subject of theoretical knowledge, whether economics is an analytic or a descriptive discipline, or if it is more properly seen in the domain of practical reason. Specifically, the book looks at the importance and the ambiguity of the ontology of modern economics, temporality, reflexivity, the question of incommensurability, and their implications for economic policy.

Author : Andrea Salanti,Ernesto Screpanti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781959633

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Pluralism in Economics by Andrea Salanti,Ernesto Screpanti Pdf

Pluralism in Economics sheds new light on the various meanings & consequences of pluralist approaches to the history & methodology of economics. It focuses on philosophical & methodological issues, & contains case studies.

Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005020436

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Ideology and Method in Economics by Homa Katouzian Pdf

Author : Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Ricardo F. Crespo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319026480

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Philosophy of the Economy by Ricardo F. Crespo Pdf

This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view. It is the result of many years of thinking and philosophical study about these topics. It differs from other philosophy of economics books as it also deals with economic reality (not only the science) and approaches its subject from an Aristotelian perspective. It differs from other Aristotelian studies about economics as it covers the whole of philosophy of the economy. This book argues why Aristotle’s thinking guarantees an appropriate interdisciplinary synthesis.

Author : William L. Marr,Baldev Raj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:39000004003187

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How Economists Explain by William L. Marr,Baldev Raj Pdf

Author : Bernt P. Stigum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691168241

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Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics by Bernt P. Stigum Pdf

As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished group of contributors bridge econometrics and the philosophy of economics--two topics that seem worlds apart. They ask: How is a science of economics possible? The answer is elusive. Economic theory seems to be about abstract ideas or, it might be said, about toys in a toy community. How can a researcher with such tools learn anything about the social reality in which he or she lives? This book shows that an econometrician with the proper understanding of economic theory and the right kind of questions can gain knowledge about characteristic features of the social world. It addresses varied topics in both classical and Bayesian econometrics, offering ample evidence that its answer to the fundamental question is sound. The first book to comprehensively explore economic theory and econometrics simultaneously, Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics represents an authoritative account of contemporary economic methodology. About a third of the chapters are authored or coauthored by Heather Anderson, Erik Biørn, Christophe Bontemps, Jeffrey A. Dubin, Harald E. Goldstein, Clive W.J. Granger, David F. Hendry, Herman Ruge-Jervell, Dale W. Jorgenson, Hans-Martin Krolzig, Nils Lid Hjort, Daniel L. McFadden, Grayham E. Mizon, Tore Schweder, Geir Storvik, and Herman K. van Dijk.