A Structuralist Theory of Economics

ISBN-13: 9780367663186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 222 str.

Adolfo García de la Sienra

Opis

Economists have long grappled with the problem of how economic theories relate to empirical evidence. This book introduces, explains, and develops a structural philosophy of which addresses this issue. Applying the work of Patrick Suppes, Karl Marx and others, it reconstructs some important economic theories using the structuralist approach.

Recenzje

"...this book presents, in a systematic fashion, a general philosophy of economics grounded in the structural view." - Mathematical Reviews

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. Models and Structures. 3. The Structuralist View of Theories. 4. Idealization and Concretization. 5. Measurement. 6. A General Concept of an Economy. 7. Preference and Utility. 8. The Logical Structure of Game Theory. 9. Abstract Labor and Labor Value. 10. Classical Economics. 11. The Logical Structure of Sraffian Economic Theory. 12. The Logical Structure of Econometrics

O autorze

Adolfo García de la Sienra is research fellow at the Instituto de Filosofía, and professor of logic, philosophy, mathematics, and economic theory at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.