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PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
Philosophy of Economics
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Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Uskali Mäki
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Contents




A General Philosophical Themes

1 The Rise and Fall of Popper and Lakatos in Economics (Roger Backhouse)
2 Realist and Antirealist Philosophies of Economics (Uskali Maki)
3 Models in Economics (Mary Morgan)
4 Causality in Economics (Kevin Hoover)
5 Philosophical Issues About Evidence and Their Manifestation in Economics (Harold Kincaid)
6 Philosophical Issues About Explanation and Their Manifestation in Economics (Harold Kincaid)
7 Explanatory Unification and Economics Imperialism (Uskali Maki)
8 Conceptions of Individual Agent Identity in Economics (John Davis)
9 The Unreasonable Efficacy of Mathematics in Economics (Philip Mirowski)
10 Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Kristina Rolin)
11 The Positive and the Normative in Economics (Wade Hands)
12 "Left-right" Ideological Polarization and the History of Economic Theory (Don Ross)
13 Social Scientific Naturalism and Economic Experimentation (Daniel Hausman)




B Specific Methods, Theories, Approaches, Paradigms, Schools, Traditions

1 The Philosophy of Economic Forecasting (Clive Granger)
2 Philosophy of Econometrics (Aris Spanos)
3 Measurement in Economics (Marcel Boumans)
4 Rational Choice, Rules and Routines (Viktor Vanberg)
5 Philosophy of Game Theory (Christina Bicchieri)
6 Experimentation in Economics (Francesco Guala)
7 Behavioral Economics (George Loewenstein and Erik Angner)
8 Philosophy of Evolutionary Economics (Jack Vromen)
9 Comparative Conceptions of Agency in Neoclassical Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Behavioral Economics (Don Ross)
10 Philosophy of Public Choice (Hartmut Kliemt)
11 Philosophy of Normative Economics (Philippe Mongin)
12 The Economics of Scientific Knowledge (Jesus Zamora Bonilla)



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Hardbound, 0 pages, publication date: MAR-2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51676-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-51676-X
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND

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