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Many of the early debates about economic methodology, marginalism versus discontinuous change, stasis versus turbulence …, co‐operation versus competition, were at base questions of general scientific methodology. During the past 20 years or so … analyse some past controversies in economic methodology in the light of recent developments in evolutionary biology.  …
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Economics, as one of the cultural and historical sciences, is responsible for the investigation of the meaningful relation between the whole and the parts, based on organic linking and not on the mechanical‐causal relationship. The relevant contributions of the leading holistic school of...
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Contrasts the methodologies and policy implications of the respective theories of John Maynard Keynes and Alvin Hansen. Keynes used a rationalistic epistemology and deductive logic to deduce a pure theory of employment which implied that monetary policy would be an appropriate remedy for...
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methodology.  …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the paradigmatic context and structure of the current theories and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms and the structure within the identified paradigm. The paper is based on the view that...
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rationalistic methodology which utilizes deductive logic to deduce conclusions concerning economic behavior from postulates, which … a methodology which combines deductive rationalism as a method of deriving substantive hypotheses and inductive … empiricism as a method of verifying these hypotheses. Institutionalism is a pragmatic methodology which is based on an empirical …
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Looks at the differences in new and old methodology with regard to economics and discusses the theories laid down by …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the paradigmatic context and structure of the current theories and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms and the structure within the identified paradigm. The paper is based on the view that...
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methodology, more oriented towards scientific dualism and a deductivistic procedure as the main tool to elaborate theories …
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conservatism. Focuses on his methodology, view of human nature, perception of change, and his thoughts on the State and society …
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