Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction

ISBN: 9780521009577 出版年：2002 页码：402 Uskali Maki Cambridge University Press

Part I. Introduction: 1. The dismal queen of the social sciences Uskali Maki Part II. Setting the Scene: 2. Ugly currents in modern economics Mark Blaug 3. Modern economics and its critics Partha Dasgupta 4. Some non-reasons for non-realism about economics Uskali Maki Part III. Economic Theory and Economic Reality: 5. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics Robert Sugden 6. Models, stories and the economic world Mary Morgan 7. The limits of causal order, from economics to physics Nancy Cartwright 8. Econometrics and reality Kevin Hoover 9. Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods Roger Backhouse 10. Truthlikeness and economic theories Ilkka Niiniluoto Part IV. The Constitution of Economic Reality: 11. Rational choice, functional selection and empty black boxes Philip Pettit 12. The reality of common cultures Shaun Hargreaves Heap 13. Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality Raimo Tuomela and Wolfgang Balzer 14. Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with 'facts in concrete' Neil DeMarchi 15. Hayek and cultural evolution Bruce Caldwell Part V. The Institutions of Economics: 16. You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric Deirdre McCloskey 17. The more things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies Wade Hands 18. Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers Jesus Zamora Bonilla.