Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections with and Without Rules

ISBN-13: 9781032209463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Esther-Mirjam Sent; John B. Davis; Bruce Caldwell

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This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics.

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Introduction: Wade Hands as an Historian and Philosopher of Economics  Part 1: Reflection with and without Rules  1. Insider, Outsider, Stranger, Resident Field-Worker? Reflections on Wade Hands’ Authorial Stance in Reflection without Rules  2. Reflections without Rules: Reflections about Rules after Twenty Years  3. Social Aspects of Economics Modelling: Disciplinary Norms and Performativity  Part 2: The methodological dimensions and implications of Paul Samuelson’s economics  4. Unification and Pluralism in Economics  5. In Search of Santa Claus: Samuelson, Stigler, and Coase Theorem Worlds  6. Neo-Samuelsonian Methodology, Normative Economics, and the Quantitative Intentional Stance  Part 3: Pragmatism  7. Models, Truth, and Analytic Inference in Economics  8. Institutional Economics and John Dewey’s Instrumentalism  9. E. F. Schumacher’s Metanoia: Rejecting Homo Oeconomicus, 1950–1977  Part 4: Behavioral Economics  10. Hands on Nudging  11. Does the Inclusion of Social Preferences in Economic Models Challenge the Positive–Normative Distinction?