New Directions in Economic Methodology (Hardcover)

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in interest in economic methodology. However this work has moved in a number of significantly different directions, and it is not easy to see how several of these might be reconciled. The virtual consensus on some variant of the "falsificationism" associated with Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper that had emerged by the late 1970s has gone, and has been replaced by a range of more or less exclusive approaches. In "New Directions in Economic Methodology", some of the figures most closely associated with the most important of these new approaches provide new and definitive statements of their positions. The result reflects the diversity of work currently undertaken in economic methodology. Much, but no means all, of this work reflects a disatisfaction with the current practice of economics and in the course of the book various attempts to reform or replace existing practice are proposed. The book begins with chapters which examine some of the big questions which underlie economics. What are - and what should be - the aims of economics? How might these be pursued? It proceeds with a section which considers what is left of "falsificationism".

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Economics as Social Theory
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Roger E. Backhouse
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-09636-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
LSN:	0-415-09636-7
Barcode:	9780415096362

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