Recent Developments In Economic Methodology

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : John Bryan Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126903421

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Recent Developments in Economic Methodology by John Bryan Davis Pdf

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134864393

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New Directions in Economic Methodology by Roger E. Backhouse Pdf

In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. Its contributors are responsible for the major developments in this field and together they give an account of all the major positions which currently prevail in economic methodology. These include attempts to rehabilitate the 'falsification' of Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper, sociology of knowledge approaches, different forms of realism, contributions from the 'rhetoric' project and other perspectives which view the economy as a text.

Author : Stephen C. R. Munday
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 0333644441

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Current Developments in Economics by Stephen C. R. Munday Pdf

Topics at the cutting edge of economics are fully explained and discussed in an accessible and user friendly style. They include economic methodology, game theory, the environment and economic growth.

Author : D. Wade Hands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521797969

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Reflection Without Rules by D. Wade Hands Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and often controversial survey of economic methodology.

Author : Harro Maas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135122171

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Economic Methodology by Harro Maas Pdf

Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline’s disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated. This book provides a historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of economists. 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 also their self-perception as economists. Beginning as intellectuals and journalists operating to a large extent in the public sphere, they then transformed into experts who developed their tools of research increasingly behind the scenes. No longer did they try to influence policy agendas through public discourse; rather they targeted policymakers directly and with instruments that showed them as independent and objective policy advisors, the tools of the trade changing all the while. In order to shed light on this evolution of economic methodology, this book takes carefully selected snapshots from the discipline’s history. It tracks the process of development through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, analysing the growth of empirical and mathematical modelling. It also looks at the emergence of the experiment in economics, in addition to the similarities and differences between modelling and experimentation. This book will be relevant reading for students and academics in the fields of economic methodology, history of economics, and history and philosophy of the social sciences.

Author : John Bryan Davis,D. Wade Hands,Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022342658

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The Handbook of Economic Methodology by John Bryan Davis,D. Wade Hands,Uskali Mäki Pdf

A multidisciplinary reference in which over 100 commissioned essays provide details of topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduce a variety of emerging themes that economic methodologists have begun to explore. The encyclopedia- type articles discuss such topics as aggregation, evolutionary economics, Otto Neurath, survey methods, Thorstein Veblen, selectionist arguments, the marginalist controversy, game theory, economic sociology, and causality. Each includes an extensive bibliography. Practicing economists and students of the philosophy or history of economics might find useful information and an entry into deeper investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : D. Wade Hands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521497159

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Reflection without Rules by D. Wade Hands Pdf

Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science. Professor Hands investigates economists' use of naturalistic and sociological paradigms to model economic phenomena and assesses the roles of pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness in discussions of economic practice before turning to a systematic exploration of more recent developments in economic methodology. The treatment emphasizes the changes taking place in science theory and its relationship to the movement away from a rules-based view of economic methodology.

Author : Panagiotis E. Petrakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030500689

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Theoretical Approaches to Economic Growth and Development by Panagiotis E. Petrakis Pdf

This book provides the theoretical and analytical background critical to understand the process of economic development and growth at the beginning of the 21st century. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, using concepts borrowed from related disciplines such as politics, anthropology, psychology, business, and more. The core theme of this book is the argument that different theoretical approaches constitute excellent creative contributions, the study of which is necessary for a complete understanding of development and growth. Thus, this book stands out for its theoretical pluralistic character. The first part of the book provides an introduction to essential methodology terms for the theory of economic development and growth, while the second part outlines important concepts of economic behavior. Part three focuses on the sources of economic growth and their evolution throughout history, and pays special attention to the main theories related to economic growth as well as to the growth and development implications of Covid-19. The book ends with an analysis of international financial architecture and the consolidated financial transaction framework.

Author : Marcel Boumans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134280667

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How Economists Model the World into Numbers by Marcel Boumans Pdf

Economics is dominated by model building, therefore a comprehension of how such models work is vital to understanding the discipline. This book provides a critical analysis of the economist's favourite tool, and as such will be an enlightening read for some, and an intriguing one for others.

Author : Julian Reiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317496823

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Error in Economics by Julian Reiss Pdf

What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation? Does money cause business activity or is it the other way around? Shall we stimulate growth by raising aggregate demand or rather by lowering taxes and thereby providing incentives to produce? Policy-relevant questions such as these are of immediate and obvious importance to the welfare of societies. The standard approach in dealing with them is to build a model, based on economic theory, answer the question for the model world and then apply the results to economic phenomena outside. Data come in, if at all, only in testing a limited number of the model's consequences. Despite some critical voices, economic methodology too has by and large subscribed to a "theory first" approach to applied economics. Error in Economics systematically develops an alternative to the theory-based orthodoxy. It places the methodical study of evidence at the centre of the scientific enterprise and thus provides a foundation for a methodology of evidence-based economics. But the book does not stop at the truism that claims should be based on the best available evidence. Rather, detailed studies in the areas of measurement, causal inference and policy analysis show what it means for a claim to be evidence-based in the context of a concrete case. The examples discussed concern topics as diverse as consumer price indices, radio spectrum auctions, the transmission mechanism, natural experiments on minimum wages and the evaluation of counterfactuals for policy. Error in Economics is essential reading for economic methodologists, philosophers of science and anyone interested in how claims about socio-economic matters are validated.

Author : Bruce Caldwell,John Davis,Uskali Mäki,Esther-Mirjam Sent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000637984

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Methodology and History of Economics by Bruce Caldwell,John Davis,Uskali Mäki,Esther-Mirjam Sent Pdf

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics. The papers in this volume fall into four parts, each devoted to an important theme in Wade Hands’ work. The first part explores the influence and scope of Reflection without Rules, capturing the rich debate that the book generated about what guides methodological and philosophical thinking in economics. The second part examines Hands’ research on Paul Samuelson’s economics and the methodological dimensions of Samuelson’s thinking. Part three looks to Hands’ long-standing interest in the philosophical foundations of pragmatist thinking. The final part addresses his more recent research in the methodological import of the emergence of behavioural economics. Together, the contributors show how Hands’ insights in complexity theory, identity, and stratification are key to understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal how his willingness to draw from multiple academic disciplines gives us a platform for interrogating mainstream economics and provides the basis for a humane yet scientific alternative. This unique volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers across social economics, history of economic thought, economic methodology, political economy, and philosophy of social science.

Author : Hilary Putnam,Vivian Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136576812

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The End of Value-Free Economics by Hilary Putnam,Vivian Walsh Pdf

This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA and Walsh a junior member of Lord Robbins’s department at the London School of Economics, both in the early 1950s. This book collects recent contributions from Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen and Partha Dasgupta, as well as a new chapter from the editors.

Author : Wilfred Dolfsma,D. Wade Hands,Robert McMaster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429577475

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History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics by Wilfred Dolfsma,D. Wade Hands,Robert McMaster Pdf

This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship. In recent decades, criticisms of mainstream economics have rekindled interest in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry that were frequently ignored by mainstream economic theory and practice during the second half of the twentieth century, including social economics, economic methodology and history of economic thought. This book contributes to a growing literature on the revival of these areas of scholarship and highlights the pivotal role that John Davis’s work has played in the ongoing revival. Together, the international panel of contributors show how Davis’s insights in complexity theory, identity, and stratification are key to understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal that Davis’s willingness to draw from multiple academic disciplines gives us a platform for interrogating mainstream economics and provides the basis for a humane yet scientific alternative. This unique volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers across social economics, history of economic thought, economic methodology, political economy and philosophy of social science.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020733825

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Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge by Roger Backhouse Pdf

Backhouse (history and philosophy of economics, U. of Birmingham, England) believes in truth and progress, but defends them against postmodern skepticism by using some of the same sources it does rather than trying to return to a pre-lapsarian state. He concludes by doubting the success of the conventional division of labor in which economic theorists transmute general assumptions into hypotheses to be tested, and econometricians test those theories statistically and establish empirical generalizations. Those two functions, he says, must interact on a much more intimate level. Some of the material is revised from previous publication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR