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Klaes, Matthias - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2005

Robert Skidelsky, author of a key biography of Keynes, notes in this biography that Keynes’s relationship to modernism … uncover influences from modernism as as a socio-cultural movement on the content of Keynes’s economics. It should be realised … however that Keynes was not ‘influenced’ by modernists, he was a modernist in that his work displays central hallmarks of …

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Uncertainty and monetary policy

Dow, Sheila C. - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2003

offer a potential solution. The literature building on Keynes’s theory of probability, in the meantime, has been refining …

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The psychology of financial markets: Keynes, Minsky and emotional finance

Dow, Sheila - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2008

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A Behavioural Perspective on Keynesian Decision Theory

Jones, Martin - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2009

Keynes's theory of probability has been studied intensively in the past few years with much discussion of its relevance … to modern economics. This paper examines Keynes's ideas in light of criticisms made by other authors and comes to the … conclusion that Keynes's views on rationality are critically flawed. However, it is asserted that this actually allows more …

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Rationality and its bounds: Re-framing social framing

Klaes, Matthias - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2006

The concept of bounded rationality has been at the forefront of a recent empiricist program in economics which under the heading of ‘behavioral economics ‘ seeks to broaden the rational choice paradigm in the direction of psychology, to the neglect of a similar broadening in the direction of...

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Variety of Opinion and the Speculative Demand for Money: An Analysis in Terms of Fuzzy Concepts

Dow, Sheila C.; Ghosh, Dipak - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2004

The purpose of the paper is to explore the potential for applying fuzzy logic to economic decision-making under Keynesian uncertainty, and in particular to circumstances where variety of opinion is important. Fuzzy logic is shown to apply where expectations may differ because the nature of the...

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Plurality in economics

Dow, Sheila - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2006

level of methodology. The purpose of this paper is to explore these developments in the light of the methodological …

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Beyond sociology: structure, agency, and strategy among tenants in India

Olsen, Wendy - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2008

This paper arises from the Global Poverty Research Group, under which I have conducted fieldwork about land rental relationships in rural south India. The paper introduces strategies as a solution to the theorists' dilemma of choice vs. constraints with particular respect to rural tenants'...

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Evolutionary economics: In defence of ‘vagueness’

Klaes, Matthias - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2004

Evolutionary economics is an increasingly influential but vaguely defined field of economic research. This article discusses different ways of defining evolutionary economics: at its object level, at the level of core concepts and, distinguishing between meaning determinist and meaning finitist...

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Representations of knowledge in monetary policy processes: a discursive perspective

Gabor, Dana - Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME), … - 2007

Exploring knowledge in monetary policy process stands to benefit by departing from conceptualizing knowledge as an objective depiction of reality, a neutral language of science underpinning technocratic policy-making. This paper proposes a postpositivist perspective, approaching knowledge...

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