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040 _cCUS
082 _a330
_bBOU/E
100 _aBoumans, Marcel
245 0 _aEconomic methodology: understanding economics as a science /
_cMarcel Boumans, John Bryan Davis, Mark Blaug, Harro Maas, Andrej Svorencik
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aLondon:
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2010.
300 _a209 p.
505 _a The Received View of Science Focus 1.1 Axiomatization Focus 1.2 Models Focus 1.3 Formalism Methodologies of Positive Economics Focus 2.1 Methodologies before Friedman Focus 2.2 Measurement Focus 2.3 Experiments Popper's Logic of Discovery Focus 3.1 The Duhem-Quine Thesis Focus 3.2 Popper's Situational Analysis Focus 3.3 Testing Kuhn and Lakatos Focus 4.1 Research Programs in Economics Focus 4.2 Scientific Revolutions in Economics? Focus 4.3 Facts The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Focus 5.1 Economics as a Discipline Focus 5.2 Case Study Research Focus 5.3 Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist Political Economy Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism Focus 6.1 Analogy and Metaphor Focus 6.2 Paul Feyerabend Focus 6.3 Realism and Causal Explanation in Economics Value Judgements in Economics Focus 7.1 Logical Positivism and Ordinalist Utility Theory Focus 7.2 Neutral Science? Focus 7.3 Naturalistic Legitimation Glossary
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