New Directions in Economic Methodology

by Backhouse; Roger E.

• ISBN13: 9780415096379
• ISBN10: 0415096375
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book reflects the diversity of recent work in the field of economic methodology. Its contributors are responsible for the major developments in this field and together they give an account of all the major positions which currently prevail in this field.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology	p. 1
General Perspectives	p. 25
Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics	p. 27
Bibliography	p. 34
The Art of Economics by the Numbers	p. 35
What Are the Questions?	p. 50
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge	p. 75
Falsificationism: for and against	p. 107
Why I Am Not a Constructivist	p. 109
Notes	p. 132
Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice	p. 137
Scientific Thinking without Scientific Method	p. 154
The Lakatosian Legacy in Economic Methodology	p. 173
Philosophical Perspectives on Economics	p. 193
Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 212
What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory?	p. 216
Reorienting the Assumptions Issue	p. 236
A Realist Theory for Economics	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 284
Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method	p. 286
Economics as Discourse	p. 317
How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why	p. 319
Metaphor and Economics	p. 343
The Economy as Text	p. 368
Index	p. 383
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