Economic Methodology

Understanding Economics as a Science

Marcel Boumans, John Davis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2015 | 2nd edition
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-1-137-54555-8 (ISBN)

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Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Essentially a philosophy of science for economists, it strengthens students' understanding and enhances their reasoning skills by introducing them to wider philosophical issues.

Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this introduction to the field of economic methodology. By doing this they strengthen students' understanding of economics as a science to enhance their reasoning skills, introducing them to the wider philosophical issues surrounding our understanding of the area.

Marcel Boumans is Associate Professor History and Methodology of Economics at the Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. John B. Davis is Professor of Economics, Marquette University, USA, and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Introduction
1. The Received View of Science
2. Methodologies of Positive Economics
3. Popper's Logic of Discovery
4. Kuhn and Lakatos
5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
6. Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism
7. Value Judgments in Economics
Glossary
Index.

Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-137-54555-0 / 1137545550
ISBN-13	978-1-137-54555-8 / 9781137545558
Zustand	Neuware