Adolfo García de la Sienra

A Structuralist Theory of Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economists have long grappled with the problem of how economic theories relate to empirical evidence. This book introduces, explains, and develops a structural philosophy of which addresses this issue. Applying the work of Patrick Suppes, Karl Marx and others, it reconstructs some important economic theories using the structuralist approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781138295643
• ISBN-10: 1138295647
• Artikelnr.: 54998256

Autorenporträt

Adolfo García de la Sienra is research fellow at the Instituto de Filosofía, and professor of logic, philosophy, mathematics, and economic theory at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. Models and Structures. 3. The Structuralist View of
Theories. 4. Idealization and Concretization. 5. Measurement. 6. A General
Concept of an Economy. 7. Preference and Utility. 8. The Logical Structure
of Game Theory. 9. Abstract Labor and Labor Value. 10. Classical Economics.
11. The Logical Structure of Sraffian Economic Theory. 12. The Logical
Structure of Econometrics