New Directions in Economic Methodology

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Cover; New Directions in Economic Methodology; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology; Part I. General Perspectives; 2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics; 3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers; 4. What Are the Questions?; 5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities; Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against; 6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian; 7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice.;While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists. Cover New Directions in Economic Methodology Copyright Contents Preface 1. Introduction: New Directions in Economic Methodology Part I. General Perspectives 2. Ends and Means in the Methodology of Economics 3. The Art of Economics by the Numbers 4. What Are the Questions? 5. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities Part II. Falsificationism: for and Against 6. Why I Am Not a Constructivist: Confessions of an Unrepentant Popperian 7. Two Proposals for the Recovery of Economic Practice. 8. Scientific Thinking Without Scientific Method: Two Views of PopperPart III. Philosophical Perspectives on Economics 10. Kuhn, Lakatos and the Character of Economics 11. What Is the Cognitive Status of Economic Theory? 12. Reorienting the Assumptions Issue 13. A Realist Theory for Economics 14. Pragmatism, Pragmaticism and Economic Method Part IV. Economics as Discourse 15. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis, and Why 16. Metaphor and Economics 17. The Economy as Text Index.