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Reflexivity and Economics George Soros's theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science
Introduction – Reflexivity and economics: George Soros’s theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science D. Wade Hands
1. Fallibility, reflexivity, and the human uncertainty principle George Soros
2. Reflexivity, complexity, and the nature of social science Eric D. Beinhocker
3. Reflexivity unpacked: performativity, uncertainty and analytical monocultures Richard Bronk
4. George Soros: Hayekian? Bruce Caldwell
5. Reflections on Soros: Mach, Quine, Arthur and far-from-equilibrium dynamics Rod Cross, Harold Hutchinson, Harbir Lamba and Doug Strachan
6. Soros’s reflexivity concept in a complex world: Cauchy distributions, rational expectations, and rational addiction John B. Davis
7. Hypotheses non fingo: Problems with the scientific method in economics J. Doyne Farmer
8. Fallibility in formal macroeconomics and finance theory Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
9. Reflexivity and equilibria Francesco Guala
10. Reflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria: economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments Cars Hommes
11. Soros and Popper: on fallibility, reflexivity, and the unity of method Mark Amadeus Notturno
12. Reflexivity, uncertainty and the unity of science Alex Rosenberg
13. On the role of reflexivity in economic analysis Anwar Shaikh
14. Broader scopes of the reflexivity principle in the economy Yi-Cheng Zhang
Biography
John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, and Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (2003), and Individuals and Identity in Economics (2011), and co-author of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (2010, with Marcel Boumans). He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology, and the Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (2011, with Wade Hands).
D. Wade Hands is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Puget Sound, WA, USA. He has written on a wide range of topics in the history of economic thought and economic methodology. He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology, and the author of Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory (2001). He is co-editor of Agreement on Demand: Consumer Choice Theory in the 20th Century (2006, with Philip Mirowski) and The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (2011, with John B. Davis).
