New Directions in Economic Methodology

Name: New Directions in Economic Methodology
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ISBN: 9780415096379

ISBN-10: 0415096375

ISBN-13: 9780415096379

Edition: 1994

Authors: Roger E. Backhouse

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This book reflects the diversity of recent work in the field of economic methodology. 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 this field.

Book details

List price: $88.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/27/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology



General Perspectives



Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics


Bibliography



The Art of Economics by the Numbers



What Are the Questions?



The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge



Falsificationism: for and against



Why I Am Not a Constructivist


Notes



Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice



Scientific Thinking without Scientific Method



The Lakatosian Legacy in Economic Methodology



Philosophical Perspectives on Economics



Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics


Bibliography



What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory?



Reorienting the Assumptions Issue



A Realist Theory for Economics


Bibliography



Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method



Economics as Discourse



How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why



Metaphor and Economics



The Economy as Text


Index