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1. Hahn and Economic Methodology

   By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. A History of Irish Economic Thought

   Edited by Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, John Turner

   Series: The Routledge History of Economic Thought

   For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political...

   Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge
3. Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy

   Edited by Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
4. Popper and Economic Methodology

   Contemporary Challenges

   Edited by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper. The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while...

   Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge
5. Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics

   Towards a Reformulation of Methodology

   By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA...

   Published June 7th 1995 by Routledge
6. Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

   The Propagation and Ideological Functions of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century

   By Thomas Boylan, Tadhg Foley

   `I believe that next to good Religious education, a sound knowledge of Political Economy would tend as much to tranquilize this country, if not more, than any other branch of knowledge that can be taught in schools.' - Cork Schools Inspector, 1853 In a nineteenth century Ireland that was divided...

   Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge