The philosophy of economics : an anthology

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Title:

Author:

Hausman, Daniel M., 1947-

ISBN:

9780521883504

9780521709842

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

vii, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Previous ed.: 1994.

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Classic Discussions -- 1. On the Definition and Method of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill -- 2. Objectivity and Understanding in Economics / Max Weber -- 3. The Nature and Significance of Economic Science / Lionel Robbins -- 4. Economics and Human Action / Frank Knight -- 5. Selected Texts on Economics, History, and Social Science / Karl Marx -- 6. The Limitations of Marginal Utility / Thorstein Veblen -- Pt. 2. Positivist and Popperian Views -- 7. The Methodology of Positive Economics / Milton Friednian -- 8. Testability and Approximation / Herbert Simon -- 9. Why Look Under the Hood? / Daniel M. Hausman -- 10. Popper and Lakatos in Economic Methodology / D. Wade Hands -- Pt. 3. Ideology and Normative Economics -- 11. Science and Ideology / Joseph Schumpeter -- 12. Welfare Propositions of Economics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility / Nicholas Kaldor -- 13. The Philosophical Foundations of Mainstream Normative Economics / Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson -- 14. Why Is Cost-Benefit Analysis So Controversial? / Robert H. Frank -- 15. Capability and Well-Being / Amartya Sen -- Pt. 4. Branches and Schools of Economics and Their Methodological Problems -- 16. Econometrics as Observation: The Lucas Critique and the Nature of Econometric Inference / Kevin D. Hoover -- 17. Does Macroeconomics Need Microfoundations? / Kevin D. Hoover -- 18. Economics in the Laboratory / Vernon Smith -- 19. Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions / Colin F. Camerer -- 20. The Market as a Creative Process / James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg -- 21. What Is the Essence of Institutional Economics? / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Pt. 5. New Directions in Economic Methodology -- 22. The Rhetoric of This Economics / Deirdre N. McCloskey -- 23. Realism / Uskali Maki -- 24. What Has Realism Got to Do with It? / Tony Lawson -- 25. Feminism and Economics / Julie A. Nelson -- 26. Credible Worlds: The Status of Theoretical Models in Economics / Robert Sugden -- Selected Bibliography of Books on Economic Methodology.

Subject Term:

Economics.

Economics -- Philosophy.

Economics -- Methodology.

Added Author:

Hausman, Daniel M., 1947-

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Summary

An anthology of works on the philosophy of economics, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and a bibliography. The volume contains 26 chapters organized into five parts: (I) Classic Discussions, (II) Positivist and Popperian Views, (III) Ideology and Normative Economics, (IV) Branches and Schools of Economics and Their Methodological Problems and (V) New Directions in Economic Methodology. It includes crucial historical contributions by figures such as Mill, Marx, Weber, Robbins, Knight, and Veblen and works by most of the leading contemporary figures writing on economic methodology, including five Nobel Laureates in Economics.