Hahn and Economic Methodology

ISBN-13: 9781138810655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str.

Thomas Boylan; Paschal O'Gorman

Opis

Frank Hahn's powerful critiques of contemporary economic methodology and innovative reconstructions of economic theorizing have challenged the views of practising economists. This book presents a study of Hahn's methodological writings.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Hahn in Context: An Overview  3. Hahn's Hostility to Methodology  4. In defence of Economic Theorising  5. The Core of Neoclassical Economics  6. Economics and Axiomatization  7. Kaldor and Hahn on Equilibrium Economics  8. Economics, Mathematics and Rationality: A New Grammar of Argumentation  9. Economic Theory and Han's Virtues of Understanding