Economics and Methodology
Crossing Boundaries
Will be published approx. on 10. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
488 pages
978-0-333-77597-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings economics and methodology closer together through a series of six methodological case studies, each of which is discussed by practitioners in the relevant field, and a specialist in methodology. The objective is a better understanding of economics as a scientific discipline and insights into the way methodological discussion can inform practice. Among the topics discussed are: game theory; externalities; free riding; involuntary unemployment; the debate over stabilization policy; and the theory of consumer demand.
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Edition
1997 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
488 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77597-4 (9780333775974)
DOI
10.1057/978-0-230-37227-6
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12/1997
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
PIERLUIGI BARROTTA University of Pisa, Italy
ANDREA BOITANI University of Rome, Italy
NANCY CARTWRIGHT London School of Economics, UK
MARINA COLONNA University of Naples, Italy
MICHEL DE VROEY Université de Louvain, Belgium
DAVID GAY University of Arkansas, USA
FRANCESCO GUALA London School of Economics, UK
D. WADE HANDS University of Puget Sound, USA
KEVIN HOOVER University of California, Davis, USA
LEONID HURWICZ University of Minnesota, USA
MICHAEL KASER University of Birmingham, UK, IEA General Editor
MAARTEN JANSSEN Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MAURICE LAGUEUX University of Montreal, Canada
AXEL LEIJONHUFVUD University of Trento, Italy
BENNETT MC CALLUM Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
THOMAS MAYER University of California, Davis, USA
PHILIP MIROWSKI University of Notre Dame, USA
PHILIPPE MONGIN THEMA, CNRS, Paris, France
MATTEO MOTTERLINI University of Milan, Italy
STEPHEN NASH University of Sydney, Australia
ARIEL RUBINSTEIN Tel Aviv University, Israel
PIERRE SALMON Université de Bourgogne, France
NANCY WULWICK Binghampton University, USA
STEFANO ZAMAGNI University of Bologna, Italy
Content
The International Economic Association Acknowledgements List of Participants Abbreviations Introduction; D.M.Hausman & U.Maki Individualism and Equilibrium Co-ordination in Games; M.Jannsen Comment; A.Rubinstein Comment: Individualistic Explanation and Strategic Justification; P.Mongin Discussion Free Riding as Mechanism; P.Salmon Comment: Free Riders, Altruists and Rationality; S.Zamagni Comment: Mechanisms, Models, and Free Riders; U.Mäki Discussion Learning From the Debate on Externalities; M.Lagueux Comment: The Growing Role of Externalities in Economic Theory; A.Boitani Comment: Assessing Human Interactions; D.M.Hausman Discussion Accounting for Involuntary Unemployment in Neoclassical Theory: Some Lessons from Sixty Years of Uphill Struggle; M.De Vroey Comment: Involuntary Unemployment One More Time; A.Leijonhufvud Comment: Keynes, Marshall and Involuntary Unemployment; K.Hoover Discussion Monetarists and Keynesians on Central Banking: a Study of a Failed Debate; T.Mayer Comment: Mayer's Version of the Monetarist versus Keynesian Debate; B.T.McCallum Comment: Task Uncertainty in Economics; N.J.Wulwick Discussion Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream; D.Wade Hands & P.Mirowski Comment; L.Hurwicz Comment; N.Cartwright Discussion Final Discussion Conclusions; R.E.Backhouse & A.Salanti Index of Names Subject Index