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Title Rationality, institutions, and economic methodology / edited by Uskali Mäki, Bo Gustafsson & Christian Knudsen
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) : illustrations
Series Economics as social theory
Economics as social theory.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; ECONOMICS WITH INSTITUTIONS: AGENDA FOR METHODOLOGICAL ENQUIRY; ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: RATIONALE, FOUNDATIONS, PROSPECTS; POPPER AND LAKATOS IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL THEORIES OF SCIENCE AND THE FATE OF INSTITUTIONALISM IN ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION, RULE-FOLLOWING, AND THE METHODOLOGY OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM, PERFECT RATIONALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF SELF-REFERENCE IN ECONOMICS; RATIONAL CHOICE, RULE-FOLLOWING AND INSTITUTIONS: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
INSTITUTIONAL STABILITY AND CHANGE IN SCIENCE AND THE ECONOMYEVOLUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: ON THE NATURE OF SELECTION IN BIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS; INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; MODELLING RATIONALITY, INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES IN ECONOMIC THEORY
Summary Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broader notions of rationality offered by institutional economics are discussed
Analysis Economics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Institutional economics.
Economics -- Methodology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economics -- Methodology
Institutional economics
Form Electronic book
Author Mäki, Uskali
Gustafsson, Bo, 1931-
Knudsen, Christian, 1951-
ISBN 0203392809
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