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Pluralism in economics : new perspectives in history and methodology

Title
Pluralism in economics : new perspectives in history and methodology / edited by Andrea Salanti and Ernesto Screpanti.
Publication
Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, Vt. : Edward Elgar, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Salanti, Andrea, 1950-
  • Screpanti, Ernesto, 1948-
  • European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
Description
viii, 319 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Economics > Congresses
  • Economics > Methodology > Congresses
  • Economics > Philosophy > Congresses
  • Economics > History > Congresses
Note
  • "Essays and comments collected in this volume were originally presented at the conference on 'Pluralism in economics: theory, history, and methodology', held in Bergamo in May 1994 and jointly organized by EAEPE and the Department of Economics of the University of Bergamo"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Andrea Salanti -- 1. On criticizing the practices of economists: a case for interventionist methodology / Tony Lawson -- 2. The one world and the many theories / Uskali Maki -- 3. Levels of description in the hermeneutics of economic theory / Eugenio Benedetti and Stefano Solari. Comment: has economics anything to gain from metaphysics and hermeneutics? / Robert Nadeau -- 4. The case for methodological pluralism / Warren J. Samuels. Comment / Riccardo Bellofiore -- 5. Methodological pluralism and pluralism of method / Sheila C. Dow. Comment: varieties of pluralism / Bruce Caldwell -- 6. The case for controlled pluralism: a bottom-up approach / Robert Delorme. Comment / Augusto Schianchi -- 7. Metaphor and pluralism in economics: mechanics and biology / Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Comment / Philip Mirowski -- 8. Analytical descriptions and theoretical pluralism in economics / Roberto Scazzieri. Comment / D. Wade Hands --
  • 9. The taste-less theory of consumer choice meets novelty / Marina Bianchi and Neil De Marchi. Comment / Maria Cristina Marcuzzo -- 10. Frank Knight's pluralism / D. Wade Hands. Comment / John B. Davis -- 11. Is 'is a precursor of' a transitive relation? / E. Roy Weintraub. Comment / Bruna Ingrao -- 12. On critics and protective belts / Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori. Comment / Andrea Salanti -- 13. The attribution of quantitative error and the erasure of plural interpretations in various sciences / Philip Mirowski. Comment / Carlo A. Favero -- 14. The economic consequences of pluralism / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap. Comment / Maurice Lagueux. Afterword: can methodological pluralism be a methodological canon? / Ernesto Screpanti. Methodological pluralism: the discussion in retrospect / Warren J. Samuels.
ISBN
1858981409
LCCN
96015996
OCLC
ocm34558906
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries