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The philosophy of economics an anthology

The second edition of this anthology contains twenty-two classic and more recent pivotal investigations in the philosophy of economics. Recommended readings now follow each selection. Daniel M. Hausman has expanded and updated coverage of such key areas as positivism and economic methodology.
Print Book, English, 2002
2. ed., digital print View all formats and editions
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2002
VIII, 469 Seiten
9780521453110, 9780521459297, 0521453119, 052145929X
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Introduction; Part I. Classic Discussions: 1. On the definition and method of political economy John Stuart Mill; 2. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber; 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins; 4. Economics and human action Frank Knight; 5. Ideology and method in political economy Karl Marx; 7. The limitations of marginal utility Thorstein Veblen; Part II. Positivism and Economic Methodology: 7. On verification in economics Terence W. Hutchison; 8. On indirect verification Fritz Machlup; 9. The methodology of positive economics Milton Friedman; 10. Testability and approximation Herbert Simon; 11. Why look under the hood? Daniel M. Hausman; Part III. Economics, Ideology, and Ethics: 12. Science and ideology Joseph Schumpeter; 13. Science and ideology in economics Robert M. Solow; 14. Economics, rationality, and ethics Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson; Part IV. Special Methodological Problems and Perspectives: 15. On econometric tools Jacob Marschak; 16. Economic model construction and econometrics John Maynard Keynes; 17. The corporation and the economist Dennis C. Mueller; 18. The market as a creative process James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg;19. Methodological differences between institutional and neoclassical economics William Dugger; Part V. New Philosophical Directions and Questions: 20. Paradigms versus research programmes in the history of economics Mark Blaug; 21. If economics isn't science, what is it? Alexander Rosenberg; 22. The rhetoric of economics Donald N. McCloskey.