03104nam 2200673Ia 450 991082846170332120200520144314.01-136-46201-51-136-46202-30-203-12734-X10.4324/9780203127346 (CKB)2550000000096939(EBL)957610(OCoLC)798533437(SSID)ssj0000622930(PQKBManifestationID)11389588(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622930(PQKBWorkID)10647148(PQKB)11548394(MiAaPQ)EBC957610(Au-PeEL)EBL957610(CaPaEBR)ebr10545488(CaONFJC)MIL760987(OCoLC)787851154(EXLCZ)99255000000009693920110819d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHahn and economic methodology /Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O'Gorman1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon ;New York Routledge20121 online resource (183 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economyDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-81065-7 0-415-21348-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Hahn and Economic Methodology; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Hahn in context: an overview; 3. Hahn's hostility to methodology; 4. In defence of economic theorizing; 5. The core of neoclassical economics?; 6. Economics and axiomatization; 7. Kaldor and Hahn on equilibrium economics; 8. Economics, mathematics and rationality: a new grammarof argumentation?; 9. Economic theory and Hahn's virtues of understanding; Notes; Bibliography; IndexHahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising is distinctive with respect to four dimensions. Firstly, the aim of economic theory is neither to describe nor explain the real economic world, as in the physical sciences. Rather the aim is to achieve objective, but non-scientific, understanding. Secondly, the central question for economiRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;29.EconomicsMethodologyEconomicsMathematical modelsEquilibrium (Economics)EconomicsMethodology.EconomicsMathematical models.Equilibrium (Economics)330.1Boylan Thomas A252352O'Gorman Paschal F(Paschal Francis),1943-252353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828461703321Hahn and economic methodology3957562UNINA