Fact and fiction in economics models, realism and social construction /

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企業作者: ebrary, Inc
其他作者: Mäki, Uskali
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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書本目錄:
  • I. Introduction:
  • Dismal queen of the social sciences / Uskali Mäki
  • II. Setting the scene:
  • Ugly currents in modern economics / Mark Blaug
  • Modern economics and its critics / Partha Dasgupta
  • Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics / Uskali Mäki
  • III. Economic models and economic reality:
  • Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics / Robert Sugden
  • Limits of causal order, from economics to physics / Nancy Cartwright
  • Econometrics and reality / Kevin D. Hoover
  • Models, stories, and the economic world / Mary S. Morgan
  • Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods / Roger E. Backhouse
  • Truthlikeness and economic theories / Ilkka Niiniluoto
  • IV. The constitution of economic reality:
  • Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" / Philip Pettit
  • Reality of common cultures / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
  • Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality / Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer
  • Hayek and cultural evolution / Bruce Caldwell
  • Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" / Neil De Marchi
  • V. The institutions of economics:
  • You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric / Deirdre N. McCloskey
  • More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies / D. Wade Hands
  • Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? / Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla