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Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics Thomas Boylan

Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics By Thomas Boylan

Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics by Thomas Boylan

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Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the debate on economic methodology. They strike a reasonable middle ground between the extremes of scientific realism and the rhetoric of economics.

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Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Methodology by Thomas Boylan

Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA

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Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS: Methodological perspectives, 2 RHETORIC: The abandonment of methodology?, 3 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Methodology revisited, 4 SCIENTIFIC REALISM: Methodology reinstated, 5 THE PLAUSIBILITY OF ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS: Realist perspectives, 6 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM: The challenge to scientific realism, 7 TOWARDS A RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: The emergence of causal holism, 8 FROM FRIEDMAN TO KALDOR: A causal holist critique of the methodology of neoclassical economics, 9 CAUSAL HOLISM: Beyond rhetoric and realism, Bibliography,Index

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NPB9780415082204
9780415082204
041508220X
Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Methodology by Thomas Boylan
Thomas Boylan
Economics as Social Theory
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1995-06-08
260
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