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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence A Boland |
| ISBN: | 0415136075 9780415136075 |
| OCLC Number: | 34658564 |
| Description: | xi, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: Criticism vs titillating methodology -- Methodology's demand and supply -- Outline of the book -- 1. Economic methodology prior to 1979 -- 2. Criticizing the critiques of Friedman's 1953 essay -- 3. Criticizing satisficing, empiricism and formalism in methodology -- 4. On the methodology of the history of contemporary economic thought -- 5. Tautology vs testability in economic methodology -- 6. Criticizing the neoclassical maximization hypothesis is futile -- 7. Appraisal vs criticism in economics -- 8. The theory and practice of economic methodology -- 9. Criticizing economic positivism -- 10. Criticizing philosophy of economics -- 11. Reflections on Blaug's Methodology of Economics |
| Responsibility: | Lawrence A. Boland. |
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Abstract:
Economic methodologists frequently complain that they are ignored by the mainstream. Practicing economists claim that methodology has nothing useful to say to them. In this typically provocative book, Lawrence Boland takes issue with both sides, arguing that there has been too much 'methodology for methodology's sake' and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economics theory. Throughout, the essays emphasize the positive role of criticism as a central part of intellectual activity.
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