Maurice Lagueux

Rationality and Explanation in Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the role of rationality in economics focusing on which conditions the rationality assumption makes valuable explanations possible and what kinds of explanation are then involved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415551212
• ISBN-10: 0415551218
• Artikelnr.: 29337073

Autorenporträt

Maurice Lagueux is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Rationality in the history of economic thought 1.
Rationality in economics before World War II 2. The hardly consistent story
of rationality-consistency Part II Objections to the notion of minimal
rationality 3. Can methodological individualism survive? 4. Is still some
room left for irrationality? 5. Minimal and Maximal Rationality: loosely
defined concepts? Part III But is rationality really necessary in
economics? 6. Why unrealism of assumptions remains a predicament 7.
Explaining in the absence of rationality Part IV Regarding economic
explanations 8. Rationality and Natural Selection in Economics 9. Theories
of explanation applied to economics. Epilogue