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.
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
Biography
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.
