Reflection without Rules

Klappentext This book is an up-to-date! comprehensive! and often controversial survey of economic methodology. Zusammenfassung The book surveys both the literature on economic methodology and contemporary science theory. It will be of interest to economists and students of economics concerned with the methodological foundations of their discipline as well as philosophers and others interested in the relationship between economics and contemporary science theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The methodological tradition in economics; 3. The breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science; 4. The naturalistic turn; 5. The sociological turn; 6. Pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness; 7. Recent developments in economic methodology; 8. The economic turn; 9. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: D Wade Hands, D. Wade Hands, D. Wade (University of Puget Sound Hands
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780521797962
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79796-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous