Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science
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Like other sciences, the study of economics has been shaped by rigorous arguments and debates that continue to influence economists today. In this fascinating introduction, Boumans and Davis consider the scientific nature of the methods, logic, and forms of explanation that underlie economics as a discipline.
ISBN
9780230218123
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York
Disciplines
Business
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Table of Contents
Introduction --
The received view of science --
Methodologies of positive economics --
Popper's logic of discovery --
Kuhn and Lakatos --
The sociology of scientific knowledge --
Rhetoric, postmodernism, and pluralism --
Value judgments in economics --
Glossary--