This volume is the first comprehensive, cohesive, and accessible reference source to the philosophy of economics, presenting important new scholarship by top scholars.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The New Philosophy of Economics, Don Ross and Harold Kincaid
- Section 1: Received Views in Philosophy of Economics
- 2. Laws, Causation and Economic Methodology, Daniel Hausman
- 3. If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It?, Alex Rosenberg
- 4. Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models, Uskali Mäki
- 5. Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge, Philip Mirowski
- Section 2: Microeconomics
- 6. Rationality and Indeterminacy, Cristina Bicchieri
- 7. Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences, Jim Woodward
- 8. Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics, John B. Davis
- 9. Integrating the Dynamics of Multi-scale Economic Agency, Don Ross
- 10. Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation, Francesco Guala
- 11. Progress in Economics--Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions, Anna Alexandrova and Robert Northcot
- 12. Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics, Jack Vromen
- Section 3: Modeling, Macroeconomics And Development
- 13. Computational Economics, Paul Humphreys
- 14. Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics, Kevin D. Hoover
- 15. Causality, Invariance, and Policy, Nancy Cartwright
- 16. The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics, Stan du Plessis
- 16. The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics, Stan du Plessis
- 18. Multisector Labor Market Models, Gary Fields
- 18. Multisector Labor Market Models, Gary Fields
- 19. What is Welfare and How Can We Measure it?, Keith Dowding
- 20. Interpersonal Comparison of Utility, Ken Binmore
- 21. Subjective Measures of Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives, Erik Angner
- 22. Facts and Values in Modern Economics, Partha Dasgupta