140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
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The philosophy of science proposes criteria to delineate true science and a theory to explain its progress. As a graduate student under the supervision of Lionel Robbins and Karl Popper, Solo first challenged the viability of those criteria and that theory in relation to economics and the social sciences. Here he explains how the foundations of that philosophy have been eroded through the advent... Read more
Chapter 1 Confessions; Chapter 2 Popper's Progress; Chapter 3 Popper's Canon, Kuhn's Paradigm and Economics; Chapter 4 Social Science, Policy Science; Chapter 5 The Character of the Discourse; Chapter 6 General Theory: An Empirico-Judgmental Discourse; Chapter 7 The Mathematization of Empirico-Judgmental Discourse; Chapter 8 Normative Theory and Other Components of Political Economy;
Biography
Robert A Solo Emeritus Professor of Economics Michigan State University, East Lansing
