Explorations in Economic Methodology

From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science
Herausgeber: Backhouse, Roger E

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Produktbeschreibung

Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology. Explorations in Economic Methodology both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by the literature and argues that methodology is an essential activity. Offering a constructive, but critical, response to the recent literature, this collection provides important new insights for students and researchers in economic methodology and the philosophy of science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415459235
• ISBN-10: 0415459230
• Artikelnr.: 23844213

Autorenporträt

Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 Rethinking Lakatos
Chapter 2 The neo-Walrasian research programme in macroeconomics
Chapter 3 Lakatos and Economics
Chapter 4 Lakatosian perspectives on general equilibrium analysis
Chapter 5 The Lakatosian legacy in economic methodology
Part 2 Rhetoric and postmodernism in economics
Chapter 6 The hermeneutic challenge to economics
Chapter 7 Rhetoric and methodology
Chapter 8 A decade of rhetoric
Chapter 9 Should economists embrace postmodernism?
Part 3 Economists on methodology
Chapter 10 The value of Post Keynesian economics
Chapter 11 Should we ignore methodology?
Chapter 12 Economic laws and economic history
Chapter 13 Is there life in contemporary academic economics?
Chapter 14 Vision and progress in economic thought
Part 4 Pragmatism and empirical philosophy of science
Chapter 15 The fixation of economic beliefs
Chapter 16 An empirical philosophy of economic theory
Chapter 17 An 'inexact' philosophy of economics?
Chapter 18 Philosophical foundations of the social sciences