The methodological choices now confronting consumer researchers are daunting and for many years, researchers have wrestled with issues related to the nature of knowledge in the study of consumption phenomena. The authors of this book examine the philosophies and methods of consumer research both...

In almost every corner of our private and public lives we rely on experts to advise us. This important species of labor is getting increasing attention from economists, who are beginning to learn how to apply their tools and assumptions to the problem of expertise. Under what conditions of...

1. Introduction -- Part I An Archeology Of Economic Science: From Physiocrats To Neoclassics -- 2. History Of Sciences And Epistemology -- 3. From Physiocratic School To Neoclassical Economy -- 4. The Different Epistemological Trajectories: From Archeology To Genealogy -- Part II Epistemological...

Zusammenfassung Im ersten Teil des Beitrags wird die Ideengeschichte der Frankfurter Schule der sozialwissenschaftlichen Statistik skizziert. Im zweiten Teil erfolgt, darauf aufbauend, eine systematische Betrachtung der Rolle der Statistik im Erkenntnisprozeß der empirischen Wirtschafts- und...