Bruce Caldwell

Beyond Positivism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book's rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134838639
• Artikelnr.: 42366774

Autorenporträt

Bruce Caldwell is Research professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the History of Political Economy, duke University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction PART ONE TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2 Logical
Positivism 3 The Positivist Tradition Matures-The Emergence of Logical
Empiricism 4 The Philosophical Attack on Logical Empiricism 5 Contemporary
Philosophy of Science-The Growth of Knowledge Tradition PART TWO SOME
ESSAYS ON POSITIVISM AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 6 Robbins versus
Hutchison-The Introduction of Positivism in Economic Methodology 7
Hutchison versus Machlup-On Indirect Testing and the Rationality Postulate
8 Friedman's Methodological Instrumentalism 9 Samuelson-Operationalism,
Descriptivism, and Explanation in Economics PART THREE PROVISIONAL ANSWERS
TO SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS 10 Is Philosophy of Science Useful for
Understanding Methodology 11 Prescription, Description, and Theory
Appraisal 12 Confirmation and Falsificationism in Economics 13 A Program
for Economic Methodologists-Methodological Pluralism