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Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals): The Critical Foundations book cover

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Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) The Critical Foundations

By Lawrence A. Boland Copyright 2014
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1986, this title argues that the successful development of a new microeconomics requires a deeper understanding of methodological individualism and its role in stability analysis. Lawrence Boland expounds a critique of neoclassical models, which, he contends, often fail to include an explicit stability analysis. He demonstrates that much of the sophisticated theoretical... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Introduction: On the Foundations of Comparative Statics;  Part I: The Economics of Sub-optimal Economies  1. The State of Equilibrium as an Optimum  2. Optimization vs. Equilibrium;  Part II: Foundations of Equilibrium Methodology  3. Individualism and Differential Calculus  4. Methods of Explaining Disequilibrium States  5. Proofs vs. Conjectures in Analytical Economics;  Part III: Limits of Equilibrium Methodology  6. Equilibria and Teleological Statics  7. Equilibria vs. Equilibrium Processes  8. Against Macroeconomics as Defeatist Microeconomics;  Part IV: Avenues for a New Microeconomics of Non-Equilibria  9. Ad Hoc Theorizing about Price Dynamics: A Slippery Slope  10. Ad Hoc Theorizing about Non-clearing Markets: A Rocky Road  11. Learning Methodology and the Equilibrium Process: A Murky Mews;  Bibliography;  Names Index;  Subject Index

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Lawrence A. Boland

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