UID:
edocfu_9959244713602883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 384 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-13257-6
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1-280-16284-8
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1-139-14784-6
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0-511-12024-9
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0-511-06443-8
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0-511-05810-1
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0-511-33058-8
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0-511-49331-2
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0-511-07289-9
Content:
There is an embarrassing polarization of opinions about the status of economics as an academic discipline, as reflected in epithets such as the Dismal Science and the Queen of the Social Sciences. This collection brings together some of the leading figures in the methodology and philosophy of economics to provide a thoughtful and balanced overview of the current state of debate about the nature and limits of economic knowledge. Authors with partly rival and partly complementary perspectives examine how abstract models work and how they might connect with the real world, they look at the special nature of the facts about the economy, and they direct attention towards the academic institutions themselves and how they shape economic research. These issues are thus analysed from the point of view of methodology, semantics, ontology, rhetoric, sociology, and economics of science.
Note:
Proceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997.
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Dismal queen of the social sciences /
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Ugly currents in modern economics /
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Modern economics and its critics /
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Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics /
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Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics /
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Limits of causal order, from economics to physics /
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Econometrics and reality /
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Models, stories, and the economic world /
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Truthlikeness and economic theories /
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Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" /
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Reality of common cultures /
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Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality /
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Hayek and cultural evolution /
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Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" /
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You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric /
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More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies /
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Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00957-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81117-1
Language:
English
