Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) - The Critical Foundations

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: On the Foundations of Comparative Statics; Part I: The Economics of Sub-optimal Economies 1. The State of Equilibrium as an Optimum 2. Optimization vs. Equilibrium; Part II: Foundations of Equilibrium Methodology 3. Individualism and Differential Calculus 4. Methods of Explaining Disequilibrium States 5. Proofs vs. Conjectures in Analytical Economics; Part III: Limits of Equilibrium Methodology 6. Equilibria and Teleological Statics 7. Equilibria vs. Equilibrium Processes 8. Against Macroeconomics as Defeatist Microeconomics; Part IV: Avenues for a New Microeconomics of Non-Equilibria 9. Ad Hoc Theorizing about Price Dynamics: A Slippery Slope 10. Ad Hoc Theorizing about Non-clearing Markets: A Rocky Road 11. Learning Methodology and the Equilibrium Process: A Murky Mews; Bibliography; Names Index; Subject Index

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Lawrence A. Boland

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• Authors: Lawrence A. Boland, Boland Lawrence A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781138776333
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77633-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic theory & philosophy, Development economics & emerging economies, Microeconomics, Development economics and emerging economies, Economic theory and philosophy