[PDF] The Methodology Of Economics eBook

Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107717264

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This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.

Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521436786

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This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.

Author : Glenn Fox
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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An introduction to the major schools of thought in economics. Examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practicing economists, studying how economists evaluate theories, the relationship between theories and the phenomena they are supposed to represent, and the philosophy, methodology, and scientific credentials of economics. Surveys five influential schools of thought in the methodology of economics, and discusses the purposes of economic inquiry and legitimate sources of economic knowledge. For students and scholars of economics, philosophy, and economic methodology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0415096375

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While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists.

Author : Uskali Mäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521867010

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A team of world-renowned experts cast new light on Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics'.

Author : Marc Reed Tool
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412837781

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This collection of articles taken from the Journal of Economic Issues offers both a fresh perspective and a persuasive diagnosis on economic methodology. It simultaneously presents institutional economists' approaches to economic inquiry and policy, as well as a running critique of conceptual flaw and inadequacies of the traditional orthodox neoclassical approach that dominates college curriculums and media.

Author : Julian Reiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317496825

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What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation? Does money cause business activity or is it the other way around? Shall we stimulate growth by raising aggregate demand or rather by lowering taxes and thereby providing incentives to produce? Policy-relevant questions such as these are of immediate and obvious importance to the welfare of societies. The standard approach in dealing with them is to build a model, based on economic theory, answer the question for the model world and then apply the results to economic phenomena outside. Data come in, if at all, only in testing a limited number of the model's consequences. Despite some critical voices, economic methodology too has by and large subscribed to a "theory first" approach to applied economics. Error in Economics systematically develops an alternative to the theory-based orthodoxy. It places the methodical study of evidence at the centre of the scientific enterprise and thus provides a foundation for a methodology of evidence-based economics. But the book does not stop at the truism that claims should be based on the best available evidence. Rather, detailed studies in the areas of measurement, causal inference and policy analysis show what it means for a claim to be evidence-based in the context of a concrete case. The examples discussed concern topics as diverse as consumer price indices, radio spectrum auctions, the transmission mechanism, natural experiments on minimum wages and the evaluation of counterfactuals for policy. Error in Economics is essential reading for economic methodologists, philosophers of science and anyone interested in how claims about socio-economic matters are validated.

Author : John Bryan Davis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A multidisciplinary reference in which over 100 commissioned essays provide details of topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduce a variety of emerging themes that economic methodologists have begun to explore. The encyclopedia- type articles discuss such topics as aggregation, evolutionary economics, Otto Neurath, survey methods, Thorstein Veblen, selectionist arguments, the marginalist controversy, game theory, economic sociology, and causality. Each includes an extensive bibliography. Practicing economists and students of the philosophy or history of economics might find useful information and an entry into deeper investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Marcel Boumans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137545577

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Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this introduction to the field of economic methodology. By doing this they strengthen students' understanding of economics as a science to enhance their reasoning skills, introducing them to the wider philosophical issues surrounding our understanding of the area.

Author : John Pheby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317464818

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The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania.