Lawrence A Boland

The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals)

Methodology After Samuelson

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781138776319
• ISBN-10: 1138776319
• Artikelnr.: 43920819

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Boland

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Preface; Prologue: Methodology vs Applied Methodology;
Part I: Applications of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation 1. Economic
understanding and understanding economics 2. On the methodology of economic
model building 3. Implementing the Popper-Samuelson demarcation in
economics; Part II: Popper-Samuelson Demarcation vs the Truth Status of
Models 4. Conventionalism and economic theory: methodological controversy
in the 1960s 5. Methodology as an exercise in economic analysis; Part III:
Exploring the Limits of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation 6. Uninformative
mathematical economic models 7. On the impossibility of testability in
modern economics 8. Model specifications, stochasticism and convincing
tests in economics; Epilogue: Methodology after Samuelson: Lessons for
Methodologists; Bibliography; Names Index; Subject Index