UID:
edocfu_9959238779302883
Format:
1 online resource (355 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
0-429-23160-1
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1-138-88104-X
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0-203-42814-5
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1-280-02263-9
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1-134-49809-8
Series Statement:
Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology ; 1
Content:
This updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much appreciated by thinkers within economics. Boland is back.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Understanding the methodology of economics; The Problem of Induction vs. the Problem with Induction; The Explanatory Problem of Individualism; Rationality vs. Maximization; Maximization and Game Theory; Ideal-type Methodology and Instrumentalism; Psychologistic Individualism and the Methodology of New Institutional Economics; Equilibrium-based Explanation vs. Individualism; Imperfect Knowledge vs. Imperfect Behavior; From Macroeconomics to Evolutionary Game Theory
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Time and Evolution in Economic TheoryInstrumentalism vs. Conventionalism: Against Rule-based Methodology; Optimistic vs. Defeatist Conventionalism; Falsifiability without Popper on the Agenda; Understanding Popper's Theory of Science; Situational Analysis and Neoclassical Explanation; Knowledge and Learning in Economic Models; Individualism and Social Knowledge; Obstacles to Building Realistic Models; Epilogue: Problem-oriented methodology: Towards a Popperian 'small-m' methodology of economics; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-44378-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-26774-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203428146
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