|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910255023903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Köhn Julia |
|
|
Titolo |
Uncertainty in Economics : A New Approach / / by Julia Köhn |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Contributions to Economics, , 1431-1933 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Schools of economics |
Risk management |
Philosophy and social sciences |
Macroeconomics |
Heterodox Economics |
Risk Management |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Part I: Uncertainty in economic thought -- Uncertainty in the history of economic thought -- Truth, probability and uncertainty -- The principles of economics -- Probability and neoclassical uncertainty -- Part II: Philosophies of uncertainty -- The origin of the profit -- Uncertainty and economic instability.-The division of knowledge and unknowledge -- The nature of economics -- Part III: Methodology of uncertainty -- Extending the boundaries of economics -- Uncertainty and fiction -- Human after all. . |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that uncertainty was originally conceptualized both as an epistemic and an ontological problem. As a result of the economic professions’ attempt to become acknowledged as a science, the more problematic aspect of ontological uncertainty has been neglected and the subjective probability approach |
|
|
|
|