The economic world view
Subtitle: studies in the ontology of economics
By: edited by Uskali Mäki.
Contributors: Mäki, Uskali.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Economics -- Philosophy; Economics -- Methodology; Economic man; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Economic ontology : what? why? how? / Uskali Mäki; title: The empirical presuppositions of metaphysical explanations in economics / Harold Kincaid; title: Quality and quantity in economics : the metaphysical construction of the economic realm / Scott Meikle; title: The normative core of rational choice theory / Russell Hardin; title: The virtual reality of homo economicus / Philip Pettit; title: Expressive rationality : is self-worth just another kind of preference? / Shaun Hargraves Heap; title: Agent identity in economics / John B. Davis; title: Chances and choices : notes on probability and belief in economic theory / Jochen Runde; title: Essences and markets / John O'Neill; title: The metaphysics of microeconomics / Alex Rosenberg; title: Ontological commitments of evolutionary economics / Jack Vromen; title: Is macroeconomics for real? / Kevin D. Hoover; title: The possibility of economic objectivity / Don Ross and Fred Bennett; title: Ceteris paribus laws and socio-economic machines / Nancy Cartwright; title: Tendencies, laws, and the composition of economic causes / Daniel M. Hausman; title: Economics without mechanism / John Dupré; title: Sargent's symmetry saga : ontological versus technical constraints / Esther-Mirjam Sent; title: Two models of idealization in economics / Alan Nelson; title: The way the world works (www) : towards an ontology of theory choice / Uskali Mäki.