LEADER 04423oam 2200673I 450 001 9910455432703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-83864-6 010 $a0-429-23433-3 010 $a1-280-31672-1 010 $a0-203-56552-5 010 $a0-203-56780-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203565520 035 $a(CKB)111056485521706 035 $a(EBL)165488 035 $a(OCoLC)437073781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11120195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10075007 035 $a(PQKB)10702355 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165488 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10060997 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL31672 035 $a(OCoLC)1000432993 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485521706 100 $a20180331h19841982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond positivism $eeconomic methodology in the twentieth century /$fBruce J. Caldwell 210 1$aLondon ;$aBoston :$cG. Allen & Unwin,$d1984, c1982. 215 $a1 online resource (298 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-83423-8 311 $a0-415-10911-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [258]-272) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to revised edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Vienna Circle; The Logical Positivist Program; Notes; Introduction; The Search for a Criterion of Cognitive Significance; The Status, Structure, and Function of Theories and Theoretical Terms; The Nature of Scientific Explanation; A Representative Logical Empiricist; Notes; Introduction; Confirmation, Induction, and Popper's Methodological Falsificationism; Theories and Theoretical Terms; The Nature of Scientific Explanation; Summary; Notes; Introduction; Thomas Kuhn; Paul K.Feyerabend; Imre Lakatos 327 $aContemporary Philosophy of ScienceA Dilettante's Review and Commentary; Notes; Robbins's Essay; Robbins and the Austrians; Hutchison's Introduction of Positivism; Philosophical Evaluation; The Austrian Revival; The Inadequacy of the Usual Attacks on Austrian Methodology; Some Doubts about Falsificationism in Economics; The Critique of Austrian Methodology; Notes; Machlup's Attack; Hutchison's Ambiguous Response; Philosophical Evaluation; The Rationality Postulate; An Overview; Some Questions Concerning the Rationality Postulate; Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Friedman's Marketing Masterpiece 327 $aPhilosophical EvaluationA Restatement; Friedman as a Methodological Instrumentalist; The Philosophical Rejection of Instrumentalism; The Methodological Critique of Friedman's Position; Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; An Anachronistic View of Scientific Explanation; Wong's Critique of Revealed Preference Theory; Does Explanation Exist in Economics?; Notes; The Benefits of Understanding the Philosophical Issues; Can Philosophy of Science Make Economic Methodology Better?; Can Other Approaches Be Taken?; Notes 327 $aPrescription, Description, and Theory Appraisal Confirmation and FalsificationismThe Theory Choice Problem and the Growth of Knowledge Tradition; The Integration of Prescription and Drescription; Notes; Confirmation and Falsificationism in Economics Confirmationism and the Practice of Economists; Falsificationism and the Rhetoric of Methodologists; Notes; Methodological Pluralism; Answers to Some Possible Objections; Notes; Notes for Further Reading; Philosophy of Science; Notes for Further Reading; Methodology of Economics; Bibliography; Philosophy of Science; Bibliography 327 $aMethodology of EconomicsIndex 330 $aSince its publication in 1982, this book has become established as one of the major works in economic methodology, with its rejection of positivism and advocacy of pluralism profoundly influencing economics over the last decade. 606 $aEconomics$xMethodology 606 $aPositivism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics$xMethodology. 615 0$aPositivism. 676 $a330.1 700 $aCaldwell$b Bruce$f1952,$0910737 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455432703321 996 $aBeyond positivism$92038458 997 $aUNINA