Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics - Towards a Reformulation of Methodology

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman Klappentext Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA Zusammenfassung Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the debate on economic methodology. They strike a reasonable middle ground between the extremes of scientific realism and the rhetoric of economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS: Methodological perspectives, 2 RHETORIC: The abandonment of methodology?, 3 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Methodology revisited, 4 SCIENTIFIC REALISM: Methodology reinstated, 5 THE PLAUSIBILITY OF ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS: Realist perspectives, 6 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM: The challenge to scientific realism, 7 TOWARDS A RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: The emergence of causal holism, 8 FROM FRIEDMAN TO KALDOR: A causal holist critique of the methodology of neoclassical economics, 9 CAUSAL HOLISM: Beyond rhetoric and realism, Bibliography,Index

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• Authors: &apos, Thomas Boylan, Thomas (National University of Ireland Boylan, Thomas A. Boylan, Thomas A. O&apos Boylan, Thomas A. O''gorman Boylan, Thomas O''gorman Boylan, Tom Boylan, Boylan Thomas, Paschal gorman, Paschal O'Gorman, Paschal (National University of Ireland O'Gorman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.1995
• EAN: 9780415125130
• ISBN: 978-0-415-12513-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: What Is Europe? (Paperback); Economics as Social Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries