Format:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415881166
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9781136763328
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy Series
Note:
Cover -- Philosophy of Economics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Why, What and How of Philosophy of Economics -- Overview -- Two Opposing Paradigms -- The Philosophy of Economics: Interpreting Theory, Methodology and Ethics -- The Aims of Economics and the Problem of Purpose -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part I Interpreting Economic Theory -- 2 Explaining Economic Phenomena -- Overview -- Explanation as an Aim of Economics -- Phenomena -- Why-Questions, Explanandum and Explanans -- Scientific Laws -- The D-N Model and Its Discontents -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part IA Rationality -- 3 Rational-Choice Theory -- Overview -- Folk Psychology -- Ordinal-Choice Theory -- Cardinal-Choice Theory -- Stability, Invariance and Justifiers -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 4 Game Theory -- Overview -- Whither the Euro? -- Some Games and Some Formalism -- Game Theory's Payoffs -- Game Theory and Rationality -- Game Theory as Explanatory Theory -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part IB Causality -- 5 Causation and Causal Tendencies -- Overview -- The Rise of Causal Talk in Economics -- Correlation Is Not Causation: So What Is Causation? -- Causal Tendencies -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 6 Mechanisms -- Overview -- Hume on Money -- Four Notions of Causal Mechanism -- Mechanisms as Underlying Structures or Processes -- Mechanisms, Methodological Individualism and Micro-Foundations -- Mechanistic Explanation -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part IC Models -- 7 Models, Idealization, Explanation -- Overview -- Causal Explanation -- Economic Models -- Idealizations -- Explanation -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings
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Part II Methodology -- 8 Measurement -- Overview -- Observation -- Consumer Price Inflation -- Unemployment and GDP -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 9 Econometrics -- Overview -- Induction, Deduction and All That -- Mostly Harmless Econometrics? -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 10 Experiments -- Overview -- Speaking to Theorists -- Searching for Facts -- Whispering into the Ears of Princes -- Methodological Issues -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 11 Evidence-Based Policy -- Overview -- What Is Evidence-Based Policy? -- What Is an RCT, and What Are Its Virtues? -- What, Then, Is Wrong with Evidence-Based Policy? -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part III Ethics -- 12 Welfare and Well-Being -- Overview -- Welfare Economics -- Well-Being -- The Evidential View of Preferences -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 13 Markets and Morals -- Overview -- Market Failure -- Transaction Costs and the Coase Theorem -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Commodification: What Money Can't Buy -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 14 Inequality and Distributive Justice -- Overview -- Inequality -- Principles of Distributive Justice -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 15 Behavioral Economics and Nudge -- Overview -- Behavioral Economics -- Libertarian Paternalism -- Philosophical Issues in Libertarian Paternalism -- Conclusions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Reiss, Julian Philosophy of Economics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415881166
Language:
English
Keywords:
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