03479nam 2200649Ia 450 991045105400332120200520144314.00-429-22961-50-585-46060-40-203-20408-51-280-32388-4(CKB)1000000000252199(EBL)165800(OCoLC)560302624(SSID)ssj0000210198(PQKBManifestationID)11194358(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210198(PQKBWorkID)10283293(PQKB)10235711(MiAaPQ)EBC165800(Au-PeEL)EBL165800(CaPaEBR)ebr10094958(CaONFJC)MIL32388(EXLCZ)99100000000025219919930923d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew directions in economic methodology[electronic resource] /edited by Roger E. BackhouseLondon ;New York Routledge19941 online resource (409 p.)Economics as social theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-09637-5 0-415-09636-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Practice8. 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; IndexIn recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. 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 economic methodology. These include attempts to rehabilitate the 'falsification' of Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper, sociology of knowledge approaches, different forms of realiEconomics as social theory.EconomicsMethodologyEconomicsPhilosophyElectronic books.EconomicsMethodology.EconomicsPhilosophy.330.01330/.01Backhouse Roger129631MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451054003321New directions in economic methodology2125686UNINA