Fact and fiction in economics
Subtitle: models, realism and social construction
By: edited by Uskali Mäki.
Contributors: Mäki, Uskali.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Economics -- Philosophy.; Economics -- Methodology.
Description: Proceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction:; title: Dismal queen of the social sciences -- Uskali Mäki -- II. Setting the scene:; title: Ugly currents in modern economics -- Mark Blaug; title: Modern economics and its critics -- Partha Dasgupta; title: Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics -- Uskali Mäki -- III. Economic models and economic reality:; title: Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics -- Robert Sugden; title: Limits of causal order, from economics to physics -- Nancy Cartwright; title: Econometrics and reality -- Kevin D. Hoover; title: Models, stories, and the economic world -- Mary S. Morgan -- Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods / -- Roger E. Backhouse; title: Truthlikeness and economic theories -- Ilkka Niiniluoto -- IV. The constitution of economic reality:; title: Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" -- Philip Pettit; title: Reality of common cultures -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap; title: Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality -- Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer; title: Hayek and cultural evolution -- Bruce Caldwell; title: Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" -- Neil De Marchi -- V. The institutions of economics:; title: You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric -- Deirdre N. McCloskey; title: More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies -- D. Wade Hands; title: Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? -- Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla