Models and Reality in Economics (Advances in Economic Methodology Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1858985757
ISBN 13
9781858985756
Category
EIPE
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
223
Description
As part of a series addressing a conceptual and technical crisis plaguing economics as a profession, this epistemological monograph by Rappaport (philosophy and economics, De Anza College; Cupertino, CA) purports to provide a description of the field that does justice to its actual practice irrespective of the methodology employed. In doing so, the author counters Donald McCloskey's recent metatheory of economics as simply rhetoric with the more traditional conception of methodology predicated on theory appraisal, predictive empiricism, economic models, and the pursuit of small-t truth. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
