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1. McCloskey's Rhetoric

   Discourse Ethics in Economics

   By Benjamin Balak

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology

   Edited by Elias Khalil

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions. The main theoretical thrust of Dewey is to unite inquiry with behavior and this book's contributions assess this insight in the light of developments in modern American...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Economics for Real

   Uskali Mäki and the Place of Truth in Economics

   Edited by Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Petri Ylikoski

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics....

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. The End of Value-Free Economics

   Edited by Hilary Putnam, Vivian Walsh

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
5. Reassessing the Paradigm of Economics

   Bringing Positive Economics Back into the Normative Framework

   By Valeria Mosini

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   When President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher adopted the neoliberal doctrine as the paradigm of economics, there was no evidence that the move would have been successful, but thirty years on, the recurrent crises that culminated in 2008 suggest a serious mis-match between expectations and...

   Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Error in Economics

   Towards a More Evidence–Based Methodology

   By Julian Reiss

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation? Does money cause business activity or is it the other way around? Shall we stimulate growth by raising aggregate demand or rather by lowering taxes and thereby providing incentives to produce? Policy-relevant questions such as these are of...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
7. The Invisible Hand in Economics

   How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences

   By N. Emrah Aydinonat

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand. The author explores the unintended social consequences implied by the invisible hand and discusses the mechanisms that bring about these consequences.The book questions, examines and explicates the...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
8. Economics and the Mind

   By Barbara Montero, Mark D. White

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in the economics discourse. Choice, while not always a conscious or rational process, is held to involve beliefs, desires, intentions and...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
9. Foundations of Paul Samuelson's Revealed Preference Theory, Revised Edition

   A study by the method of rational reconstruction

   By Stanley Wong

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   Originally published over two decades ago, this classic text within the philosophy of economics is a tour de force against revealed preference. It critically examines the research programme carried out by the Nobel Prize winner Paul Samuelson on the revealed preference approach to the theory of...

   Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge
10. Representation and Structure in Economics

    The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function

    By Hsiang-Ke Chao

    Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

    This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice. Offering a comprehensive and comparative exposition of the accounts of models in both econometrics and philosophy of science, this work shows how econometrics and...

    Published December 16th 2008 by Routledge