Hahn and Economic Methodology - The Pursuit of Understanding

Informationen zum Autor Thomas A. Boylan is Personal Professor of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Paschal F. O’Gorman is Personal Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Both Professors have collaborated over the last 20years and have co-written and co-edited a number of books (all with Routledge), and published extensively in an array of international journals. Klappentext Frank Hahn's powerful critiques of current economic methodology and innovative reconstructions of economic theorizing have long challenged the views of practising economists. This title presents a study of Hahn's methodological writings. It is suitable for scholars with an interest in the philosophy of economics. Zusammenfassung In Hahn on Methodology we provide the first book-length study of Hahn’s overall position on methodology, including his strident critique of certain methodological positions and his positive methodological prescriptions and their rationale. . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Hahn in Context: An Overview 3. Hahn's Hostility to Methodology 4. In defence of Economic Theorising 5. The Core of Neoclassical Economics 6. Economics and Axiomatization 7. Kaldor and Hahn on Equilibrium Economics 8. Economics, Mathematics and Rationality: A New Grammar of Argumentation 9. Economic Theory and Han's Virtues of Understanding

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Boylan, Thomas O''gorman Boylan, Boylan Thomas, Paschal O'Gorman, O'Gorman Paschal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2012
• EAN: 9780415213486
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21348-6
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Economic theory and philosophy