Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Author: Warren J. Samuels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1349123714

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Contains a collection of articles on economics as a system of discourse and on certain epistemological problems of economics. The treatment of both topics centres on the role of often implicit assumptions as to whose interests count in reaching conclusions especially as to policy.


Economics Broadly Considered

Economics Broadly Considered

Author: Jeff E. Biddle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1134561431

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Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work


The Rhetoric of Economics

The Rhetoric of Economics

Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1998-05-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0299158136

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A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a "humanomics," and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.


Foundations of Research in Economics

Foundations of Research in Economics

Author: Steven G. Medema

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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In 21 prescriptive rather than descriptive treatments, well known academic economists set out how they think the discipline should be practiced both internally and in relation to other fields and arenas of society. They explore economics as a historical process and as a public science, realism in model buildings, social science, normative and positive aspects, extracting information from data, and worthwhile economics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.


Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

Author: Warren J. Samuels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1349122637

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A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The individuals whose work is singled out include Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E. Witte, Robert Lee Hale and Joan Robinson.


The Economics of Science

The Economics of Science

Author: James R Wible

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1134691920

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Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as an economically rational individual. This book begins with economic models of misconduct in science and the legitimate, normal practices of science, moving on to market failure, the market place of ideas, self-correctiveness, and the organizational and institutional structures of science. An exploration of broader methodological themes raised by an economics of science ends the work.