Format:
1 online resource (409 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415096362
,
9780203204085
Series Statement:
Economics As Social Theory Series
Content:
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
Note:
Cover -- New Directions in Economic Methodology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology -- Part I. General Perspectives -- 2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics -- 3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers -- 4. What Are the Questions? -- 5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities -- Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against -- 6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian -- 7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice -- 8. Scientific Thinking Without Scientific Method: Two Views of Popper -- Part III. Philosophical Perspectives on Economics -- 10. Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics -- 11. What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory? -- 12. Reorienting the Assumptions Issue -- 13. A Realist Theory for Economics -- 14. Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method -- Part IV. Economics as Discourse -- 15. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why -- 16. Metaphor and Economics -- 17. The Economy as Text -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Backhouse, Roger E. New Directions in Economic Methodology Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1994 ISBN 9780415096362
Language:
English
Keywords:
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