1st Edition
How Economists Think A Kantian Interpretation of Mainstream Economics
Introduction
Main Hypotheses of This Work
1. The Essence of Economics
2. Economics of Persons versus Things
3. The Centrality of Utility
4. Uncertainty, Completeness, Equilibrium: Rationality
5. The Economics of Knowledge and Information
6. Will the Philosophies of Economics Converge?
Postscript: What Have We Concluded about Our Initial Hypotheses?
Index
Biography
Steven Buccola is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University, where his research has focused on the economics of science and technology and his teaching on graduate-level microeconomic theory. He is Distinguished Fellow and Past President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, was Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a Wade Awardee for Excellence in Teaching at Oregon State University, and a committee member with the National Research Council, National Academies, Washington, D.C., in a review of USDA-funded research.
