The foundations of positive and normative economics: a handbook

Methodology has gone undiscussed for some 50 years. In fact, there may NEVER in the history of our field been such a high level volume in this area. The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book ina new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. This fact has left economists ill at ease, and has created a backlash against new methods. The series will debate these critical issues, allowing proponents of a particular research method to present proposals in a safe yet critical context, with alternatives being clarified. This first volume, written by some of the most prominent researchers in the discipline, reflects the challenges that are opened by new research opportunities. The goal of the current volume and the series it presages, is to formally open a dialog on methodology. The editors' conviction is that such a debate will rebound to the benefit of social science in general, and economics in particular. The issues under discussion strike to the very heart of the social scientific enterprise. This work is of tremendous importance to all who are interested in the contributions that academic research can make not only to our scientific understanding, but also to matters of policy. In particular, economists have been introducing newtheories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both on how productive these expansions have been in the past, and how best to make progress in the future. INDICE: PART I: SETTING THE STAGE. 1. The Case for Mindless Economics , Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer 2. The Case for Mindful Economics , Colin Camerer. 3. Whats So Informative about Choice? , Andrew Schotter. 4. On Two Points of View Regarding Revealed Preference and Behavioral Economics , Ran Spiegler. 5. Some Thoughts on the Principle of Revealed Preference , Ariel Rubensteinand Yuval Salant. 6. Mindless or Mindful Economics: A Methodological Evaluation , Daniel Hausman. PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NORMATIVE ECONOMICS. PART III: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NORMATIVE ECONOMICS. 7. Choice-Theoretic Foundations forBehavioral Welfare Economics , B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel. 8. Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences , Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin. 9.The Economist as Therapist:Methodological Ramifications of "Light" Paternalism , George Loewenstein and Emily Haisley. PART IV: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR POSITIVEECONOMICS. 10. Look-ups as theWindows of the Strategic Soul , Vincent Crawford. 11. Revealed Preference and Bounded Rationality , Douglas Gale. 12. The Seven Properties of Good Models , Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson. 13. ResearcherIncentives and Empirical Methods , Edward L. Glaeser. 14. Choice and Process:Theory Ahead of Measurement , Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin. 15. Economic Theory and Psychological Data: Bridging the Divide , Andrew Caplin.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-532831-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 416
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés