Rationality and explanation in economics / / Maurice Lagueux
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| Autore: |
Lagueux Maurice
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| Titolo: |
Rationality and explanation in economics / / Maurice Lagueux
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.1 |
| 339 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Rational expectations (Economic theory) |
| Reason - Economic aspects | |
| Economics - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Rationality in the history of economic thought; 1 Rationality in economics before the Second World War; 2 The hardly consistent story of rationality-consistency; Part II: Objections to the notion of minimal rationality; 3 Can methodological individualism survive?; 4 Is still some room left for irrationality?; 5 Minimal and maximal rationality: Loosely defined concepts?; Part III: But is rationality really necessary in economics?; 6 Why unrealism of assumptions remains a predicament |
| 7 Explaining in the absence of rationalityPart IV: Regarding economic explanations; 8 Rationality and natural selection in economics; 9 Theories of explanation applied to economics; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the rationality principle is by far the most fundamental. This principle assumes that people are rational, but what is meant by this has to be specified.Rationality and Explanation in Economics claims that only a minimal kind of rationality is required to 'animate' economic explanat |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rationality and explanation in economics |
| ISBN: | 1-135-15033-8 |
| 1-135-15034-6 | |
| 1-282-57017-X | |
| 9786612570179 | |
| 0-203-85647-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814555203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 128.