Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science - Hardcover

Boumans, Marcel; Davis, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230218121 ISBN 13: 9780230218123

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Economic methodology was formally recognized as a field of economic inquiry in the 1980s, asn was heavily influenced by currents in the philosophy of science, particularly by the reaction against logical positivism as exemplified in the writings of Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos. The authors, bringing to bear a wealth of research and teaching experience, situate the field within the broader philosophy of science tradition. They explore the key refinements to, and extensions and departures from, the field in order to understand issues prevalent in the economic domain.

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About the Author

MARCEL BOUMANS is Associate Professor and Co-director of the faculty research programme History and Methodology of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 
JOHN B. DAVIS is Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics and Co-director of the faculty research programme History and Methodology of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Professor of Economics at Marquette University, USA. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230218121
• ISBN 13: 9780230218123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230