Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Downward, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This intriguing new book examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world. With contributions from such varying commentators as Sheila Dow, Wendy Olsen and Fred Lee, this new book is unique in its approach and will be of great interest to both economic methodologists and those involved in applied economic studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134497591
• Artikelnr.: 42669411

Autorenporträt

Paul Downward is Reader in Economics at Staffordshire University, UK. He is also author of The Economics of Professional Team Sports also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Paul Downward 2. Critical Realism and Economics Shelia Dow
3. Conceptualising Unemployment in a period of Atypical Employment: A
Critical-Realist Approach Steve Fleetwood 4. Critical Realism, Methodology
and Applied Economics Bernard Walters and David Young 5. Critical realism
and Formal Modelling: Incompatible Bedfellows? Mark Setterfield 6. Seeking
a Role for Empirical Analysis in Critical-Realist Explanation Paul
Downward, John H. Finch and John Ramsay 7. Critical Realism and
Econometrics: Interaction between Philosophy and Post Keynesian Practice
Paul Downward and Andrew Mearman 8. A Pragmatic Alliance between Critical
Realism and Simple Non-parametric Statistical Techniques John H. Finch and
Robert McMaster 9. Triangulation, Time and the Social Objects of
Econometrics Wendy Olsen 10. Theory Foundations and the Methological
Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics Frederic S. Lee 11. Questionnaires
in Realist research: A Case Study of Rural Small-Scale Industry in Ghana
Wendy Olsen, Thandie M. Hara, and Sampson Edusah 12. Critical Realism and
Applied Work in Economic History: Some Methodological Implications Brian
Pinkstone 13. Critical Realism and the Political Economy of the Euro Philip
Arestis, Andrew Brown and Malcolm Sawyer 14. Presenting Demi-Regularities:
The Case of Post Keynesian Pricing aul Downward and Andrew Mearman 15. From
Predictive To Indicative Statistics: Explaining Corporate Borrowing Murray
Glickman 16. Transition in Eastern Europe: Critical Realism and Qualitative
Insights Karl Petrick 17. Conclusion Paul Downward