| Description |
viii, 469 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I. Classic Discussions: 1. On the definition and method of political economy John Stuart Mill -- 2. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber -- 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins -- 4. Economics and human action Frank Knight -- 5. Ideology and method in political economy Karl Marx -- 7. The limitations of marginal utility Thorstein Veblen -- Part II. Positivism and Economic Methodology: 7. On verification in economics Terence W. Hutchison -- 8. On indirect verification Fritz Machlup -- 9. The methodology of positive economics Milton Friedman -- 10. Testability and approximation Herbert Simon -- 11. Why look under the hood? Daniel M. Hausman -- Part III. Economics, Ideology, and Ethics: 12. Science and ideology Joseph Schumpeter -- 13. Science and ideology in economics Robert M. Solow -- 14. Economics, rationality, and ethics Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson -- Part IV. Special Methodological Problems and Perspectives: 15. On econometric tools Jacob Marschak -- 16. Economic model construction and econometrics John Maynard Keynes -- 17. The corporation and the economist Dennis C. Mueller -- 18. The market as a creative process James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg;19. Methodological differences between institutional and neoclassical economics William Dugger -- Part V. New Philosophical Directions and Questions: 20. Paradigms versus research programmes in the history of economics Mark Blaug -- 21. If economics isn't science, what is it? Alexander Rosenberg -- 22. The rhetoric of economics Donald N. McCloskey |
| Analysis |
Economics Philosophy |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p447-461. _ Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economics -- Methodology.
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Economics -- Philosophy.
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Economics.
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| Author |
Hausman, Daniel M., 1947-
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| LC no. |
93005496 |
| ISBN |
0521453119 |
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052145929X (paperback) |
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