Conceptual Anomalies in Economics and Statistics - Lessons From the Social Experiment

Klappentext This book explores anomalies in the conceptual basis of controlled social experiments. Zusammenfassung This book explores anomalies in the conceptual basis of such experiments and in the foundations of statistics and economics more generally. Drawing upon several examples! the author argues that methodological anomalies prevent microeconomics and statistics from explaining human social behaviour as coherently as the physical sciences explain nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. Statistical Logics: 1. J. S. Mill and some philosophical underpinnings of controlled experimentation; 2. R. A. Fisher, randomization, and controlled experimentation; 3. Some special difficulties of controlled social experiments; 4. Hume's problem of induction in modern statistical inference and controlled experimentation; Part II. Economic Logics: 5. Problems with a rationalist account of classical mechanics; 6. Microeconomics striving to be a classical-mechanics-like science; 7. The income maintenance experiments: microeconomic science or scientism?; 8. Microeconomics striving to be deontology; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Symbols and abbreviations; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Leland Gerson Neuberg, Neuberg Leland Gerson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521070218
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07021-8
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Economic statistics, Econometrics and economic statistics