Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
About the Book Series
The field of economic methodology has expanded rapidly during the last few decades. This expansion has occurred in part because of changes within the discipline of economics, in part because of changes in the prevailing philosophical conception of scientific knowledge, and also because of various transformations within wider society. Research in economic methodology now reflects not only developments in contemporary economic theory, the history of economic thought, and the philosophy of science; but it also reflects developments in science studies, historical epistemology, and social theorizing more generally. The field of economic methodology still includes the search for rules for the proper conduct of economic science, but it also covers a vast array of other subjects and accommodates a variety of different approaches to those subjects.
The objective of this series is to provide a forum for the publication of significant works in the growing field economic methodology. Since the series defines methodology quite broadly, it will publish books on a wide range of different methodological subjects. The series is also open to a variety of different types of works: original research monographs, edited collections, as well as republication of significant earlier contributions to the methodological literature. The International Network for Economic Methodology (INEM) is proud to sponsor this important series of contributions to the methodological literature.
Economics and Performativity: Exploring Limits, Theories and Cases
1st Edition
By Nicolas Brisset
June 30, 2020
Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world. They shape it in the image of their theories and models. This idea, following the philosophy of language, puts forward that economic theories are performative, and not only descriptive. This idea has become a powerful critique of ...
The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Ragip Ege, Herrade Igersheim
June 30, 2020
The Philosophy of Economics primarily considers the economic agent as a moral subject. Economics, however, has long overlooked the agent’s moral – that is to say, reasonable – dimension, to focus instead on the strictly rational. This volume seeks to address this neglected topic through ...
Philosophical Problems of Behavioural Economics
1st Edition
By Stefan Heidl
August 08, 2019
The goal of behavioural economics is to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economics. This can be achieved by using theoretical and methodological resources of psychology. Its fundamental idea is that the relationship between psychology and economics cannot be subsumed under standard ...
Economics for Real: Uskali Mäki and the Place of Truth in Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Petri Ylikoski
November 10, 2016
This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics....
Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Downward
March 03, 2016
This intriguing new book examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world. With contributions from such varying commentators as Sheila Dow, Wendy Olsen and Fred Lee, this new book is unique in its approach and...
Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function
1st Edition
By Hsiang-Ke Chao
December 01, 2014
This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice. Offering a comprehensive and comparative exposition of the accounts of models in both econometrics and philosophy of science, this work shows how econometrics and ...
The End of Value-Free Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Hilary Putnam, Vivian Walsh
May 30, 2014
This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA ...
Popper and Economic Methodology: Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman
April 24, 2014
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper. The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while ...
Reassessing the Paradigm of Economics: Bringing Positive Economics Back into the Normative Framework
1st Edition
By Valeria Mosini
October 03, 2013
When President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher adopted the neoliberal doctrine as the paradigm of economics, there was no evidence that the move would have been successful, but thirty years on, the recurrent crises that culminated in 2008 suggest a serious mis-match between expectations and ...
McCloskey's Rhetoric: Discourse Ethics in Economics
1st Edition
By Benjamin Balak
September 18, 2012
The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique...
Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology
1st Edition
Edited
By Elias Khalil
September 10, 2012
This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions. The main theoretical thrust of Dewey is to unite inquiry with behavior and this book's contributions assess this insight in the light of developments in modern American ...
Error in Economics: Towards a More Evidence–Based Methodology
1st Edition
By Julian Reiss
February 01, 2010
What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation? Does money cause business activity or is it the other way around? Shall we stimulate growth by raising aggregate demand or rather by lowering taxes and thereby providing incentives to produce? Policy-relevant questions such as these are of ...