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UNINA9910815441903321 |
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Titolo |
New directions in economic methodology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Roger E. Backhouse |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-86439-6 |
0-429-22961-5 |
0-585-46060-4 |
0-203-20408-5 |
1-280-32388-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Collana |
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Economics as social theory |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics - Methodology |
Economics - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; New Directions in Economic Methodology; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology; Part I. General Perspectives; 2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics; 3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers; 4. What Are the Questions?; 5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities; Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against; 6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian; 7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice |
8. Scientific Thinking Without Scientific Method: Two Views of PopperPart III. Philosophical Perspectives on Economics; 10. Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics; 11. What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory?; 12. Reorienting the Assumptions Issue; 13. A Realist Theory for Economics; 14. Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method; Part IV. Economics as Discourse; 15. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why; 16. Metaphor and Economics; 17. The Economy as Text; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic |
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