Lawrence A Boland

Foundations of Economic Method

A Popperian Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much appreciated by thinkers within economics. Boland is back.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138881044
• ISBN-10: 113888104X
• Artikelnr.: 42834537

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Boland is Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published widely within economic methodology and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Understanding the Methodology of EconomicsPart 1: The 'Hidden
Agenda' of Neoclassical Economics1. The problem of Induction vs. the
Problem with Induction2. The Explanatory Problem of IndividualismPart 2:
The Visible Agenda of Neoclassical Economics3. Rationality vs.
Maximization4. Maximization and Game TheoryPart 3: Critical Applied
Methodology5. Ideal-Type Methodology and Intrumentalism6.
Psychologistic-Individualism and the Methodology of New Institutional
Economics7. Equilibrium-based Explanations vs. Individualism8. Imperfect
Knowledge vs. Imperfect Behaviour9. From Macroseconomics to Evolutionary
Game Theory10.Time and Evolution in Economic TheoryPart 4: A Critique of
Traditional Economic Methodology11.Intrumentalism vs. Conventionalism:
Against Rule-based Methodology12.Optimistic and Defeatist
Conventionalism13.Falsifiability without Popper an the AgendaPart 5:
Putting Popper on the Agenda14.Understanding Popper's Theory of
Science15.Situational Analysis and Neocalssical ExplanationPart 6: Applied
Methodology for Economics Model Building16.Knowledge and Learning in
Economic Models17.Individualism and Social Knowledge18.Obstacles to
Building Realistic ModelsEpilogue: Problem-oriented Methodology: towards a
Popperian 'small-m' Methodology of Economics