
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naïve. For their part too, most economists don't know much formal philosophy.
The purpose of the present book is to help bridge this great divide between philosopher and economist. Arguing for the person-centered mainstream economics over what would be an objects-centered scientific one, it makes a systematic case that the epistemology of the economics used in research and teaching today derives from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. On these grounds it is shown that understanding modern economics is a matter of becoming familiar with Kant's interpretative forms of perception, judgment, and reason.
It will be vital reading for philosophers, economists, and others interested in these two critical professions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Main Hypotheses of This Work
- I The Essence of Economics
- II Economics of Persons versus Things
- III The Centrality of Utility
- IV Uncertainty, Completeness, Equilibrium: Rationality
- V The Economics of Knowledge and Information
- VI Will the Philosophies of Economics Converge?
- Postscript: What Have We Concluded about Our Initial Hypotheses?
- Index