The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented - how can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? Here, contributors discuss this issue with renewed academic vigour.
The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented - how can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging it...
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper. The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This book includes expert contributions from thinkers such as Tony Lawson, K. Vela Velupillai and John McCall, who discuss this issue with renewed academic rigour.
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Po...
'I believe that next to good Religious education, a sound knowledge of Political Economy would tend as much to tranquilize this country, if not more, than any other branch of knowledge that can be taught in schools.' - Cork Schools Inspector, 1853 In a nineteenth century Ireland that was divided socially, economically, politically and denominationally, consensus was sought in the new discipline of political economy, which claimed to be scientifically impartial and to transcend all divisions. The authors explore the ideological mission of political economy, and the reasons for the failure of...
'I believe that next to good Religious education, a sound knowledge of Political Economy would tend as much to tranquilize this country, if not more, ...
For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken.
In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of political economy, for the first time providing an overview of developments in Irish political economy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Logistically this is achieved through...
For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Ca...
Frank Hahn's powerful critiques of contemporary economic methodology and innovative reconstructions of economic theorizing have challenged the views of practising economists. This book presents a study of Hahn's methodological writings.
Frank Hahn's powerful critiques of contemporary economic methodology and innovative reconstructions of economic theorizing have challenged the views o...
