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Author : Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521867016
A team of world-renowned experts cast new light on Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics'.
Author : Milton Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226264035
This paper is concerned primarily with certain methodological problems that arise in constructing the "distinct positive science" that John Neville Keynes called for, in particular, the problem how to decide whether a suggested hypothesis or theory should be tentatively accepted as part of the "body of systematized knowledge concerning what is."
Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521883504
This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.
Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717268
This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.
Author : David C. Colander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050749111
Following up on his 1990 collection of essays Why Aren't Economists as Important as Garbagemen, Colander (Economics, Middlebury College, Vermont) reprints another 12 essays expressing his evolving ideas about the work and profession. They are intended for general academic readers, though he warns that economists will understand some parts than others, and to be fun to read. c. Book News Inc.
Author : John Bryan Davis,D. Wade Hands,Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022342658
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 : Andrew Caplin,Andrew Schotter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199890110
The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. Economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both on how productive these expansions have been in the past, and how best to make progress in the future. The speed of these changes has left economists ill at ease, and has created a backlash against new methods. The series will debate these critical issues, allowing proponents of a particular research method to present proposals in a safe yet critical context, with alternatives being clarified. This first volume, written by some of the most prominent researchers in the discipline, reflects the challenges that are opened by new research opportunities. The goal of the current volume and the series it presages, is to formally open a dialog on methodology. The editors' conviction is that such a debate will rebound to the benefit of social science in general, and economics in particular. The issues under discussion strike to the very heart of the social scientific enterprise. This work is of tremendous importance to all who are interested in the contributions that academic research can make not only to our scientific understanding, but also to matters of policy.
Author : Marcel Boumans,John Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137545572
Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this introduction to the field of economic methodology. By doing this they strengthen students' understanding of economics as a science to enhance their reasoning skills, introducing them to the wider philosophical issues surrounding our understanding of the area.
Author : Valeria Mosini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136658204
When President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher adopted the neoliberal doctrine as the paradigm of economics, there was no evidence that the move would have been successful, but thirty years on, the recurrent crises that culminated in 2008 suggest a serious mis-match between expectations and outcomes: a re-examination of the paradigm is in order. This book focuses on Milton Friedman’s formulation of the neoliberal doctrine, and analyses two aspects that were essential to turning it into a fully-fledged paradigm: the attribution of scientific status to positive economics, which led to informing public policies on the requirements of the market; and the characterisation of economic freedom as capable of promoting political freedom, which led to identifying free market with democracy. The book exposes Friedman’s methodological argument for attributing positive economics scientific status as a failure, and his characterisation of economic freedom as a delusion; it identifies in the emergence as the mainstream in economics of the neoclassical synthesis, which borrowed from Walras’ the mathematical treatment of equilibrium but not the ethical and social framework in which it was inscribed, a development that facilitated the transition from the Keynesian to the neoliberal paradigm. Dr. Mosini shows that the gigantic bail-outs carried out courtesy of the public purse, which institutionalised the practice of collectivising losses while keeping profits private, were no accident, but the consequence of the rethinking of the function of lender of last resort according to Friedman’s conception of rationality in relation to risk, combined with his interpretation of the 1930s recession. The book concludes that the neoliberal paradigm has served the interests of the economically powerful social strata it was designed to benefit extremely well, but that the deep, and deepening, injustice it has brought about calls for a complete rethinking of the paradigm of economics according to ethical principles respectful of human values. This book should be of interest to students and researchers of Political Economy, Economic Methodology, History of Economic Thought and Philosophy.
Author : R.B. McKenzie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400974210
The essays in this volume were a challenge to me to write. I am an economist to the core, inclined to evaluate most observed behavior and public policies with conventional neoclassical theory. The essays represent my attempt to come to grips with the meaning and importance of what I try to do as a professional economist. They reflect my attempt to acquire a new and improved understanding of the usefulness and limitations of the writings of professional economists, especially my own. In this regard, although I hope others will find the thoughts useful, the volume represents a personal statement of how one economist views his and others' work. For that reason the discussion is often openly normative, tinged with the conviction that social discourse is more than costs and benefits and that economics cannot be fully evaluated by the methods - economic methods - that are the subject of the evaluation. These essays could not have been written without considerable encouragement and help from colleagues and friends. The following people are recognized for having read one or more chapters and for having contributed critical, substantive comments: Diana Bailey, Wilfred Beckerman, Geoffrey Brennan, William Briet, James Buchanan, Delores Martin, David Maxwell, Mary Ann McKenzie, Warren Samuels, Robert Staaf, Richard Wagner, Karen Vaughn, and Bruce Yandle. I am very much in their debt. However, they should not be held accountable for any of the positions taken and any errors that may remain.
Author : Hilary Putnam,Vivian Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136576812
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 : Bruce Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134838639
Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book‘s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi
Author : Henry Bartel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:6642917
Author : Ronald Harry Coase
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044588056
Author : Douglas E. Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108423328
Demonstrates the importance of social norms to firms and markets through historical context and theoretical and empirical evidence.
