Economics and the Philosophy of Science

Name: Economics and the Philosophy of Science
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Deborah A. Redman
ISBN: 9780195082746

Deborah A. Redman

26/08/1993
Oxford University Press

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Couverture de Economics and the Philosophy of Science par Deborah A. Redman

Résumé

This is a theoretical examination of the scientific assumptions underlying much of economic theory. Part I discusses the philosophy of science in general, including the work of Popper, Lakatos, Feyerabend, Bartley, Kuhn, Fleck, Polyani, Toulmin, and Hanson. Part II focuses on Popper, Lakatos and Kuhn and their philosophies of economics. The author concludes that economists abuse methodology, especially paradigms that are used to demonstrate that a given school of thought is more scientific than another.