The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends

ISBN-13: 9781138320529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 220 str.

Ricardo F. Crespo

Opis

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: namely, a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application.

Spis treści

1) Introduction2) Two Notions of Economy3) Economic Sciences4) Empirical Data, Measurement and Statistics5) Economic Theory I: Some Philosophical Concepts6) Economic Theory II: Positive Economics7) Economic Theory III: Final Causes 8) Ethical Values and Economic Sciences 9) Normative Economics and the Common Good10) The Art of Economics11) Drawing Conclusions

O autorze

Ricardo F. Crespo is Professor at the IAE Business School, Universidad Austral, Argentina, and at the Philosophy Department, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. He is also a Researcher at CONICET (Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research).