New Directions in Economic Methodology

ISBN-13: 9780415096379 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 404 str.

R. Backhouse; Roger Backhouse

Opis

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in interest in economic methodology. However this work has moved in a number of significantly different directions, and it is not easy to see how several of these might be reconciled. The virtual consensus on some variant of the falsificationism associated with Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper that had emerged by the late 1970s has gone, and has been replaced by a range of more or less exclusive approaches. In New Directions in Economic Methodology, some of the figures most closely associated with the most important of these new approaches provide new and definitive statements of their positions. The result reflects the diversity of work currently undertaken in economic methodology. Much, but no means all, of this work reflects a disatisfaction with the current practice of economics and in the course of the book various attempts to reform or replace existing practice are proposed. The book begins with chapters which examine some of the big questions which underlie economics. What are - and what should be - the aims of economics? How might these be pursued? It proceeds with a section which considers what is left of falsificationism.

Spis treści

Contributors: Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham; Terence Hutchison, University of Birmingham; David Colander, Middlebury College; Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame; D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound; Mark Blaug, University of London; Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Lawrence A. Boland, Simon Frazer University; Daniel M. Hausman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alex Rosenberg, University of California at Riverside; Uskali Maki, Academy of Finland; Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge; Kevin Hoover, University of California at Davis; Donald N. McCloskey, University of Iowa; Willie Henderson, University of Birmingham; Vivienne Brown, The Open University

O autorze

Roger E. Backhouse