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The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals): Methodology after Samuelson book cover

1st Edition

The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) Methodology after Samuelson

By Lawrence Boland Copyright 1989
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability in economics. In The Methodology of Economic Model Building , first published in 1989,... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Prologue: Methodology vs Applied Methodology;  Part I: Applications of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation  1. Economic understanding and understanding economics  2. On the methodology of economic model building  3. Implementing the Popper-Samuelson demarcation in economics;  Part II: Popper-Samuelson Demarcation vs the Truth Status of Models  4. Conventionalism and economic theory: methodological controversy in the 1960s  5. Methodology as an exercise in economic analysis;  Part III: Exploring the Limits of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation  6. Uninformative mathematical economic models  7. On the impossibility of testability in modern economics  8. Model specifications, stochasticism and convincing tests in economics;  Epilogue: Methodology after Samuelson: Lessons for Methodologists;  Bibliography;  Names Index;  Subject Index

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Lawrence A. Boland

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