Intellectual Path Dependence in Economics: Why Economists Do Not Reject Refuted Theories

ISBN-13: 9781138495555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str.

Altug Yalcintas

Opis

Is economics always self-corrective? Do erroneous theorems permanently disappear from the market of economic ideas? Intellectual Path Dependence in Economics argues that errors in economics are not always corrected. Although economists are often critical and open-minded, unfit explanations are nonetheless able to reproduce themselves. The problem is that theorems sometimes survive the intellectual challenges in the market of economic ideas even when they are falsified or invalidated by criticism and an abundance of counter-evidence.

Spis treści

Part I. Epistemic Responsibility of Economists 1. Matters of Opinion or Questionable Research Practices? Part II. The Economic Construction of Sciences 2. Explaining Epistemic Hystereses 3. Sciences between Scylla and Charybdis 4. Error: A Common Tragedy in Sciences Part III. Concluding Remarks 5. Economics as Part of a System of Research Ethics

O autorze

Altug Yalcintas is an historian and philosopher of economics. He is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department of Ankara University, Turkey.