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Why Economics is Not Yet a Science
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First published in 1983. A collection of papers directed at those outside the field of Economics, to open up discussions around the scientific worth of Economics.
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Index
A matrix, 220-21
abstraction, 45, 55, 64, 69, 71, 151, 183, 187
academic economics, 92-99, 119-21
academic hierarchy, in economics (see economics profession, hierarchical structure of)
accelerator-multiplier model, 135-38
AFDC payments, 57
agenda screen, 111-14
aggregation, x, 145, 150-52, 214
American Economic Review, xii, 23-24, 28, 31-32, 36-38, 110
analytical statements, 17, 33
Andrews, P. W. S., 91, 93, 97-98, 106, 108, 114-16, 118-19
anomalies, 101, 106
anthropology, 195-97
antitrust, 203
applied economics, 230
a priori reasoning (see axiomatic reasoning)
appointments, in economics, 95, 183, 227-28, 234
Aristotelian thought, 65, 84-85
Arrow, Kenneth, 181, 213, 236
assumptions, 207-09;
in economics, 32, 50, 52, 55, 69, 86, 101, 107-08, 121, 143, 167-68, 183, 192, 230, 234
Augustine, Saint, 66
Austrian school, 67, 78, 81, 85
axiomatic reasoning, 5, 6, 67, 70, 73-74, 113, 183, 187, 189 (see also deductive reasoning)
axioms, 70-71, 74, 79, 84-85, 167, 180-81, 206
banking, 54
Barback, R. H., 106
Becker, Gary, 31
behavioral theory, 6, 90-93, 100, 107, 115, 119;
of economics profession, 92-99;
of the firm, 114
Blaug, Mark, 150-52, 160
Boorman, J. T., 53-54
Borts, George, 25-26
bridging dev...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ASKING WHETHER ECONOMICS IS A SCIENCE?
- MODERN EMPIRICISM AND QUANTUM-LEAP THEORIZING IN ECONOMICS
- IDEOLOGY, METHODOLOGY, AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS
- A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF ECONOMISTS' BEHAVIOR
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM MACROECONOMICS: VISION, IDEOLOGY, AND THEORY
- HOW ECONOMISTS MISUSE MATHEMATICS
- INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: TOWARD PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE
- WHY ECONOMICS IS NOT YET A SCIENCE
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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