Fact and Fiction in Economics (eBook, PDF)

Models, Realism and Social Construction
Redaktion: Maki, Uskali

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is an embarrassing polarization of opinions about the status of economics as an academic discipline, as reflected in epithets such as the Dismal Science and the Queen of the Social Sciences. This collection brings together some of the leading figures in the methodology and philosophy of economics to provide a thoughtful and balanced overview of the current state of debate about the nature and limits of economic knowledge. Authors with partly rival and partly complementary perspectives examine how abstract models work and how they might connect with the real world, they look at the special nature of the facts about the economy, and they direct attention towards the academic institutions themselves and how they shape economic research. These issues are thus analysed from the point of view of methodology, semantics, ontology, rhetoric, sociology, and economics of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058103
• Artikelnr.: 38196677

Autorenporträt

USKALI MÄKI is Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and Academic Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The dismal queen of the social sciences Uskali
Mäki; Part II. Setting the Scene: 2. Ugly currents in modern economics Mark
Blaug; 3. Modern economics and its critics Partha Dasgupta; 4. Some
non-reasons for non-realism about economics Uskali Mäki; Part III. Economic
Theory and Economic Reality: 5. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical
models in economics Robert Sugden; 6. Models, stories and the economic
world Mary Morgan; 7. The limits of causal order, from economics to physics
Nancy Cartwright; 8. Econometrics and reality Kevin Hoover; 9. Economic
models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods Roger
Backhouse; 10. Truthlikeness and economic theories Ilkka Niiniluoto; Part
IV. The Constitution of Economic Reality: 11. Rational choice, functional
selection and empty black boxes Philip Pettit; 12. The reality of common
cultures Shaun Hargreaves Heap; 13. Collective acceptance and collective
attitudes: on the social construction of social reality Raimo Tuomela and
Wolfgang Balzer; 14. Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early
struggles with 'facts in concrete' Neil DeMarchi; 15. Hayek and cultural
evolution Bruce Caldwell; Part V. The Institutions of Economics: 16. You
shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric Deirdre McCloskey; 17. The
more things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in
contemporary science studies Wade Hands; 18. Economists: truth-seekers or
rent-seekers Jesus Zamora Bonilla.