Fact and fiction in economics models, realism and social construction /
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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