Foundations of research in economics : how do economists do economics? /
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 mo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA :
Edward Elgar,
1998.
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
| Series: | Advances in economic methodology.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Economics is a Historical Process
- 2. Realism in Economic Model Building
- 3. Economics as a Public Science
- 4. Surviving as a Slightly Out of Sync Economist
- 5. Extracting Economic Information From Data: Methedology in an Empirical Discipline
- 6. The Social Science of Wealth
- 7. What is To Be Done (about Economics)?
- 8. Doing Applied Economics: Normative and Positive Aspects
- 9. How I Do Economics
- 10. Towards a Worthwhile Economics
- 11. How Should Economists Do Economics? A Pragmatic Perspective
- 12. How to be a Crazy Economist
- 13. Doing the Economics of Trust and Informal Institutions
- 14. The Predictive Science of Economics?
- 15. Questions, Theory and Data
- 16. The Dark Side of Economic Modeling
- 17. 'You're Not Making Sense, You're Just Being Logical'
- 18. Puzzle Solving: Reciprocity, Reasoning and Behavior
- 19. Doing Economics Without Homo Economicus
- 20. What Use is Economic Theory?
- 21. A Dictum for Monetary Theory
- How Should Economists Do Economics? An Integrative Essay
- Index.