Leland Gerson Neuberg

Conceptual Anomalies in Economics and Statistics

Lessons from the Social Experiment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores anomalies in the conceptual basis of controlled social experiments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070218
• ISBN-10: 052107021X
• Artikelnr.: 23886996

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Statistical Logics: 1. J. S. Mill and some philosophical underpinnings of controlled experimentation
2. R. A. Fisher, randomization, and controlled experimentation
3. Some special difficulties of controlled social experiments
4. Hume's problem of induction in modern statistical inference and controlled experimentation
Part II. Economic Logics: 5. Problems with a rationalist account of classical mechanics
6. Microeconomics striving to be a classical-mechanics-like science
7. The income maintenance experiments: microeconomic science or scientism?
8. Microeconomics striving to be deontology
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Symbols and abbreviations
Index.