E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
Lehtinen / Kuorikoski / Ylikoski Economics for Real
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-51325-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
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Uskali Mäki and the Place of Truth in Economics
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-136-51325-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics.
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Introduction: Uskali Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics Aki Lehtinen (Univ. of Helsinki) Part I Isolating Truth in Economic Models 1 Saving Truth for Economics Frank Hindriks (Univ. of Groningen) 2 The verisimilitude of economic models Ilkka Niiniluoto (Univ. of Helsinki) 3 Mäki’s MISS Daniel Hausman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) 4 Models as isolators: for and against Till Grüne-Yanoff (Univ. of Helsinki) 5 Isolated economic mechanisms: motivational crowding, multi-argument utility-functions and mixing mechanisms Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Part II The Commonsensical Basis of Economics 6 Realism, Commonsensibles, and Economics: The Case of Contemporary Revealed Preference Theory D. Wade Hands (Univ. of Puget Sound) 7 Are Preferences for Real? Choice Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Hard Case for Commonsensible Realism Francesco Guala (Univ. of Milan) Part III The proper domain of economics 8 Mäki’s realism and the scope of economics Don Ross (Univ. of Cape Town) 9 Mäki on Economics Imperialism John Davis (Univ. of Amsterdam) Part IV Rethinking Realism(s) 10 Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics Kevin Hoover (Duke University) 11 Getting Real with the Critical Petri Ylikoski and Jaakko Kuorikoski (Univ. of Helsinki) 12 Realism, conversation and inference Jesús Zamora-Bonilla (UNED, Madrid)