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Economic methodology : understanding economics as a science
- Title
- Economic methodology : understanding economics as a science / Marcel Boumans and John Davis ; with contributions from Mark Blaug, Harro Maas and Andrej Svorenčik.
- Author
- Boumans, Marcel.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Davis, John Bryan.
- Description
- xii, 233 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Note
- Revised edition of the authors' Economic methodology, 2010.
- "Macmillan Education"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 18-97
- ISBN
- 9781137545558 (paperback)
- 1137545550 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2015032812
- OCLC
- 922639637
- Author
- Boumans, Marcel.
- Title
- Economic methodology : understanding economics as a science / Marcel Boumans and John Davis ; with contributions from Mark Blaug, Harro Maas and Andrej Svorenčik.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Davis, John Bryan.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 18-97