Like other sciences, the study of economics has been shaped by rigorous arguments and debates that continue to influence economists today. In this fascinating introduction, Boumans and Davis consider the scientific nature of the methods, logic, and forms of explanation that underlie economics as a discipline. INDICE: - The Received View of Science - Focus 1.1 Axiomatization - Focus 1.2 Models - Focus 1.3 Formalism - Methodologies of Positive Economics - Focus2.1 Methodologies before Friedman - Focus 2.2 Measurement - Focus 2.3 Experiments - Popper's Logic of Discovery - Focus 3.1 The Duhem-Quine Thesis - Focus3.2 Popper's Situational Analysis - Focus 3.3 Testing - Kuhn and Lakatos - Focus 4.1 Research Programs in Economics - Focus 4.2 Scientific Revolutions in Economics? - Focus 4.3 Facts - The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge - Focus 5.1 Economics as a Discipline - Focus 5.2 Case Study Research - Focus 5.3 Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist Political Economy - Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism - Focus 6.1 Analogy and Metaphor - Focus 6.2 Paul Feyerabend - Focus 6.3 Realism and Causal Explanation in Economics - Value Judgementsin Economics - Focus 7.1 Logical Positivism and Ordinalist Utility Theory - Focus 7.2 Neutral Science? - Focus 7.3 Naturalistic Legitimation - Glossary
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21813-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 17/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés