The Methodology Of Economic Model Building Routledge Revivals

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317680956

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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 : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
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 : Colin Harbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136646171

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Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals) by Colin Harbury Pdf

First published in 1980, Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an examination of business decision-taking to the analysis of supply and demand in goods and factor markets. The second half of the book deals with the major macroeconomic aggregates, national income, employment and the price level – giving both Keynesian and Monetarist approaches a fair hearing. The book ends with two chapters on economic policy and concludes with a chapter on methods of building and testing economic models – a subject which is both interesting and useful by the time students have grasped the essence of economic analysis. Throughout, the author makes economics relevant and at the same time presents basic theoretical techniques of analysis and controversies in a manner which makes translation to one of the major standard theory texts as smooth as possible.

Author : Gómez Vilchez, Jonatan J.
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783731509141

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The Impact of Electric Cars on Oil Demand and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Key Markets by Gómez Vilchez, Jonatan J. Pdf

Author : Othmar Spann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0415678978

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Types of Economic Theory (Routledge Revivals) by Othmar Spann Pdf

Spann intended the work to serve as both history of economic thought and a critique of the main theories and systems of political economy, analysing the basic problems of economics in the light of the evolution of economic theory.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Marcel Boumans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134280674

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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 : The Late Frederic S. Lee,Bruce Cronin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781782548461

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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics by The Late Frederic S. Lee,Bruce Cronin Pdf

Despite the important methodological critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant research method taught in heterodox programmes remains econometrics. This compelling Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of alternative research methods, invaluable for analysing the data prominent in heterodox studies. Providing a solid basis for a mixed methods approach to economic investigations, the expertly crafted contributions are split into three distinct sections: philosophical foundation and research strategy, research methods and data collection, and applications. Introductions to a host of invaluable methods such as survey, historical, ethnographic, experimental and mixed approaches, together with factor, cluster, complex and social network analytics, are complemented by descriptions of applications in practice. Practical and expansive, this Handbook is highly pertinent for students and scholars of economics, particularly those dedicated to heterodox approaches, as it provides a solid reference for mixed methods not available in mainstream economics research methods courses.

Author : Hsiang-Ke Chao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Consumption
ISBN : 1138805459

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Representation and Structure in Economics by Hsiang-Ke Chao Pdf

This groundbreaking book provides a perspective on two alternative and competing views of the role of models in the development of theories and the advance of scientific understanding - namely, the syntactic and semantic approaches.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107032946

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Model Building in Economics by Lawrence A. Boland Pdf

Concern about the role and the limits of modeling has heightened after repeated questions were raised regarding the dependability and suitability of the models that were used in the run-up to the 2008 financial crash. In this book, Lawrence Boland provides an overview of the practices of and the problems faced by model builders to explain the nature of models, the modeling process, and the possibility for and nature of their testing. In a reflective manner, the author raises serious questions about the assumptions and judgments that model builders make in constructing models. In making his case, he examines the traditional microeconomics-macroeconomics separation with regard to how theoretical models are built and used and how they interact, paying particular attention to the use of equilibrium concepts in macroeconomic models and game theory and to the challenges involved in building empirical models, testing models, and using models to test theoretical explanations.

Author : Wilfred Dolfsma,D. Wade Hands,Robert McMaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0367111063

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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' 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. understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal that Davis' 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 : Edward J. Nell,Karim Errouaki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849809627

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Rational Econometric Man by Edward J. Nell,Karim Errouaki Pdf

•If you are interested in understanding the underlying philosophical reasons why structural econometrics seems dead, read this book. Not only do the authors provide a comprehensive, stimulating, and provocative account of the debate and literature, the

Author : Warren Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317934035

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Real Business Cycle Models in Economics by Warren Young Pdf

The purpose of this book is to describe the intellectual process by which Real Business Cycle models were developed. The approach taken focuses on the core elements in the development of RBC models: (i) building blocks, (ii) catalysts, and (iii) meta-syntheses. This is done by detailed examination of all available unpublished variorum drafts of the key papers in the RBC story, so as to determine the origins of the ideas. The analysis of the process their discovery is then set out followed by explanations of the evolution and dissemination of the models, from first generation papers through full blown research programs. This is supplemented by interviews and correspondence with the individuals who were at the center of the development of RBC models, such as Kydland, Prescott, Long, Plosser, King, Lucas and Barro, among others. This book gets stright to the heart of the debates surrounding RBC models and as such contributes to a real assessment of their impact on modern macroeconomics. The volume, therefore, will interest all scholars looking at macroeconomics as well as historians of economic thought more generally.

Author : B Axelsson,G Easton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.