What Do Economists Know?: New Economics of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780415152600 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str.

Robert F. Garnett

Opis

This volume rethinks the classic question of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Drawing from a range of perspectives, from postmodernism to critical realism, it casts light on the relationship between the producers and consumers of economic knowledge, both academic and non-academic. Challenging the ivory tower view of economists as disinterested producers of scientific knowledge against the unscientific economics of the lay person, the authors advance a vision of economic knowledge as irreducibly plural and dispersed, rather than as a unified accumulation of academic thought. It collects the reflections of leading economic theorists, including Jack Amariglio, John B. Davis, Arjo Klamer, Judith Mehta, Deidre McCloskey, David Ruccio and Grahame Thompson.

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Preface. Acknowledgements. Economics of Knowledge: Old and New Robert F. GarnettPart 1: Academic versus Ersatz Economics. The Transgressive Knowledge of Ersatz Economics Jack Amarigloi and David F. Ruccio. Look at Me Look at You Judith Mehta. Jack, David, and Judith Looking at Me Looking at Them Deirdre McCloskey The Crowding Out of Academic Economics: The Case of Nafta Arjo Klamer and Jennifer Meehan. Bridging the Gap Between the Public's and the Economists Views of the Economy Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Mollyann Brodie, Richard Morin, Drew E. Altman, Daniel Gitterman, Mario Brossard and Matt JamesPart II: It's not all academic. Knowledge Production, Professional, Authority and the State: The Case of American Economics During and After World War II Michael A. Bernstein. Foundations and Economic Knowledge Radhika Balakrishnan and Caren Grown. Can There Be Genre Difference in Economic Literature? Suzanne Bergeron and Bruce PietrykowskiPart III Reconstructing the Academic Conversation. Postmodernism and Identity Conditions for Discourses John B. Davis. The Role of Econometrics in the Neoclassical Research Program James R. Wible and Norman H. Sedgely, III.Part IV Teaching Matters. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Ulla Grapard. Mandating Knowledge: The Role of the Advances Placement Exam in Secondary Economics Education Claire Sproul. Strategy and Tactics in the Pedagogy of Economics: What Should be Done About Neo-classical Economics? Grahame F. Thompson. Working Knowledge of Economics? Richard McIntyre. Index.

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Edited by Robert F Garnett Jr