1st Edition
The Philosophy of Causality in Economics Causal Inferences and Policy Proposals
By Mariusz Maziarz
Copyright 2020
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Approximately one in six top economic research papers draws an explicitly causal conclusion. But what do economists mean when they conclude that A ‘causes’ B ? Does ‘cause’ say that we can influence B by intervening on A , or is it only a label for the correlation of variables? Do quantitative analyses of observational data followed by such causal inferences constitute sufficient grounds... Read more
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Regularities
Chapter 3. Causality as changes in conditional probability
Chapter 4. Counterfactuals
Chapter 5. Mechanisms
Chapter 6. Interventions and manipulability
Chapter 7. Concluding remarks
Biography
Mariusz Maziarz is a PhD candidate at Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland, and Assistant Researcher with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics & Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Poland.
