Why Economics is Not Yet a Science
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Why Economics is Not Yet a Science
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First published in 1983. A collection of papers directed at those outside the field of Economics, to open up discussions around the scientific worth of Economics.
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ASKING WHETHER ECONOMICS IS A SCIENCE? MODERN EMPIRICISM AND QUANTUM-LEAP THEORIZING IN ECONOMICS, IDEOLOGY, METHODOLOGY, AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS, A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF ECONOMISTS’ BEHAVIOR, THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM MACROECONOMICS: VISION, IDEOLOGY, AND THEORY, HOW ECONOMISTS MISUSE MATHEMATICS, INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: TOWARD PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE, WHY ECONOMICS IS NOT YET A SCIENCE
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Alfred S. Eichner, Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, is the author of The Megacorp and Oligopoly and the editor of A Guide to Post-Keynesian Theory.