Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
1st Edition
Published on 8. June 1995
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-415-08220-4 (ISBN)
Description
Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-08220-4 (9780415082204)
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Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
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Thomas Boylan | Paschal O'Gorman
Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
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06/1995
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Thomas Boylan | Paschal O'Gorman
Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
E-Book
06/1995
Routledge
€116.99
Available for download
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Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman
Content
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS: Methodological perspectives, 2 RHETORIC: The abandonment of methodology?, 3 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Methodology revisited, 4 SCIENTIFIC REALISM: Methodology reinstated, 5 THE PLAUSIBILITY OF ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS: Realist perspectives, 6 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM: The challenge to scientific realism, 7 TOWARDS A RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: The emergence of causal holism, 8 FROM FRIEDMAN TO KALDOR: A causal holist critique of the methodology of neoclassical economics, 9 CAUSAL HOLISM: Beyond rhetoric and realism, Bibliography,Index