Economic Methodology, History and Pluralism: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367695675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Negru, Ioana

Opis

This volume focuses on the contributions of Sheila Dow to economic methodology, pluralism and the history of economic thought. These explorations serve to underpin her ideas and theories on macroeconomics, banking, and money.

Spis treści

Foreword   Introduction: Sheila Dow as a Visionary Economics Scholar   Chapter 1: The Relation of Neoclassical Economics to other Disciplines: the case of Physics and Psychology   Chapter 2: Sheila Dow’s Open Systems Methodology   Chapter 3: Categorisation, Criticism and Pluralism in Context: Open and Closed Systems And the Project of Mathematical Modelling in Modern Economics   Chapter 4: Dualism Revisited   Chapter 5: Naturalism and the new challenge to Sheila Dow’s schools-of-thought approach to economics   Chapter 6: Infinite Regress Problems and the Methodologies of Behavioural Economics   Chapter 7: Should equilibrium be abandoned by heterodox economists?   Chapter 8: Dow, Keynes and the Pragmatic Tradition: More in Common?   Chapter 9: Keynes in transition: ‘The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren’   Chapter 10: Ethical Practice in Economics: Research, Policy Advice and Education   Chapter 11:  Sheila Dow as historian of economic thought: The Scottish political economy tradition   Chapter 12: The conditions under which Adam Smith’s invisible hand operate   Chapter 13: Mary Theresa Rankin: A Monetary Economist in the Scottish Tradition of Political Economy   Chapter 14: David Hume as a Scottish Political Economist   Chapter 15: Sheila Dow’s body of work – Publications from 1980 to 2022