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The rhetoric of policy relevance in international economics

Milberg, William - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 3 (1996) 2, pp. 237-259

This paper addresses the link between the generation of economic knowledge and economic policy conclusions. Focusing on the case of research in international trade, It establishes a taxonomy of rhetorical practices used to make such a link. The flexibility observed in these practices contrasts...

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The rhetoric of economics

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article offers an approach to the general structure of the rhetoric in economy. In our case we adopted a … perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy … defense of the free commerce is not released of presumptions reflected in the field of the rhetoric. Reason why to include the …

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Two rhetorical strategies of laissez-faire

Denis, A. - Department of Economics, City University - 2003

For many economists, including those who have made the most marked contribution to the development of the discipline, their work has to be understood in the context of the rhetorical strategy they were pursuing – what they wanted to persuade us of and how they wanted to do it. The paper...

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Collective and individual rationality: Robert Malthus’s heterodox theodicy

Denis, Andy - EconWPA - 2003

This paper forms part of a research project investigating conceptions of the relationship between micro-level self-seeking agent behaviour and the desirability or otherwise of the resulting macro-level social outcomes in the history of economics. I identify two kinds of conservative rhetorical...

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Two rhetorical strategies of laissez-faire

Denis, Andy - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 11 (2004) 3, pp. 341-357

. Reconciling a holistic ontology with a reductionist policy prescription requires the intercalation of a black box, such as an …

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The Philosophy of Economics. The Austrian, Neo-Keynesian, and Neo-Marxist Schools [Filozofia ştiinţelor economice. Şcolile Austriacă, neo-keynesiană şi neo-marxistă]

Alexandru, Popovici - In: Revista OEconomica (2014) 02

Based on the ontological and epistemological problems and solutions exposed in the previous paper, we scrutinize the philosophical grounds of three main schools of economics. They are not opposing one another as solid blocks of incompatible ideas and theories, but each school contains...

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Problems of the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Economics [Probleme ale filozofiei ştiinţelor naturii şi a ştiinţelor socio-umane –...

Alexandru, Popovici - In: Revista OEconomica (2014) 01

In the view of analysing the differences and resemblances of the natural and social sciences (with the economics between them), some of their ontological and epistemological problems and solutions are presented. Many methodological options succeed to preserve the basic unity and autonomy of the...

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Designing a consistent accounting research - evidence from linkages between accounting and religion

Joannides, Vassili; Berland, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This paper has a methodological purpose, as we are aiming to show practices of accounting research designing. In that heuristic, we are basing our argument on Burrell’s and Morgan’s (1979), Feyerabend’s (1975), Quattrone’s (2000, 2004b) and Lowe’s (2004a, b) epistemo-methodological...

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Pluralism and Heterodoxy: Introduction to the Special Issue

Mearman, Andrew - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 1 (2008) 2, pp. 5-25

This paper introduces a special issue of the journal devoted to work presented at two recent conferences of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE). The AHE is an organisation which advocates and provides a forum for non-mainstream approaches to economics. Recent conferences have focused...

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Towards a critical realist-inspired economic methodology

Davidsen, Bjørn-Ivar - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 3 (2010) 2, pp. 74-96

This paper argues that critical realism conceived as a metatheory for scientific activities offers a consistent set of helpful philosophical resources from which a potentially fruitful position of economic methodology may be developed. When fully developed, a critical realistinspired...

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