Beyond positivism : economic methodology in the twentieth century [texto impreso] / Bruce J. Caldwell . - London : George Allen & Unwin, 1985 . - x, 277 p.
ISSN : 0-04-330342-1
Idioma : Inglés

Temas:	ECONOMIA FILOSOFIA DE LA CIENCIA METODOLOGIA POSITIVISMO SIGLO XX
Clasificación:	330.1
Nota de contenido:	Introduction -- TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Logical Positivism -- The Vienna Circle -- The Logical Positivist Program -- Notes -- The Positivist Tradition Matures, The Emergence of Logical Empiricism -- Introduction -- The Search for a Criterion of Cognitive Significance -- The Status, Structure, and Function of Theories and Theoretical Terms -- The Nature of Scientific Explanation -- A Representative Logical Empiricist -- Notes -- The Philosophical Attack on Logical Empiricism -- Introduction -- Confirmation, Induction, and Popper's Methodological Falsificationism -- Theories and Theoretical Terms -- The Nature of Scientific Explanation -- Summary -- Notes -- Contemporary Philosophy of Science, The Growth of Knowledge Tradition -- Introduction -- Thomas Kuhn -- Paul K.Feyerabend -- Imre Lakatos -- Contemporary Philosophy of Science, A Dilettante's Review and Commentary -- Notes -- SOME ESSAYS ON POSITIVISM AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY -- Robbins versus Hutchison, The Introduction of Positivism in Economic Methodology -- Robbins's Essay -- Robbins and the Austrians -- Hutchison's Introduction of Positivism -- Philosophical Evaluation -- The Austrian Revival -- The Inadequacy of the Usual Attacks on Austrian Methodology -- Some Doubts about Falsificationism in Economics -- The Critique of Austrian Methodology -- Notes -- Hutchison versus Machlup: On Indirect Testing and the Rationality Postulate -- Machlup's Attack -- Hutchison's Ambiguous Response -- Philosophical Evaluation -- The Rationality Postulate; An Overview -- Some Questions Concerning the Rationality Postulate --Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Friedman's Methodological Instrumentalism -- Friedman's Marketing Masterpiece --Philosophical Evaluation -- A Restatement; Friedman as a Methodological Instrumentalist -- The Philosophical Rejection of Instrumentalism -- The Methodological Critique of Friedman's Position -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Samuelson-Operationalism, Descriptivism, and Explanation in Economics -- Introduction -- Samuelson's Operationalism and Machlup's Critique -- An Anachronistic View of Scientific Explanation -- Wong's Critique of Revealed Preference Theory -- Does Explanation Exist in Economics? -- Notes -- PROVISIONAL ANSWERS TO SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS -- Is Philosophy of Science Useful for Understanding Methodology -- The Benefits of Understanding the Philosophical Issues -- Can Philosophy of Science Make Economic Methodology Better? -- Can Other Approaches Be Taken? -- Notes -- Prescription, Description, and Theory Appraisal -- Confirmation and Falsificationism -- The Theory Choke Problem and the Growth of Knowledge Tradition -- The Integration of Prescription and Drescription -- Notes -- Confirmation and Falsificationism in Economics -- Confirmationism and the Practice of Economists -- Falsificationism and the Rhetoric of Methodologists -- Notes -- A Program for Economic Methodologist; Methodological Pluralism -- Methodological Pluralism -- Answers to Some Possible Objections -- Notes -- Notes for Further Reading; Philosophy of Science -- Notes for Further Reading; Methodology of Economics -- Bibliography; Philosophy of Science --Bibliography; Methodology of Economics Index.
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