Mark Blaug, Blaug Mark

The Methodology of Economics

Or, How Economists Explain
Herausgeber: Pencavel, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521436786
• ISBN-10: 0521436788
• Artikelnr.: 21915557

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. What You Always Wanted to Know about the Philosophy of Science but Were Afraid to Ask: 1. From the received view to the views of Popper
2. From Popper to the new heterodoxy
Part II. The History of Economic Methodology: 3. The verifications, a largely nineteenth-century story
4. The falsifications, a wholly twentieth-century story
5. The distinction between positive and normative economics
Part III. A Methodological Appraisal of the Neoclassical Research Program: 6. The theory of consumer behaviour
7. The theory of fun
8. General equilibrium theory
9. Marginal productive theory
10. Switching, reswitching, and all that
11. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory of international trade
12. Keynesians versus monetarists
13. Human capital theory
14. The new economics of the family
15. The rationality postulate
Part IV. What Have We Now Learned about Economics?: 16. Conclusions
Glossary
Suggestions for further reading
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index.