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Emergent Properties in the Work of Friedrich Hayek

Lewis, Paul A. - 2015

The term 'emergence' features only infrequently on the work of Friedrich Hayek, and then almost always merely as a synonym for 'spontaneous order'. The argument of this paper is that Hayek's accounts both of the working of the human mind, and also of the spontaneous order of the market, rely...

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Introduction to : 'Transforming Economics - Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project'

Lewis, Paul A. - 2016

This paper is an introduction to an edited volume entitled, 'Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project.' It outlines the project of critical realism in economics, describing how the latter's emphasis on social ontology shapes its approach to economic methodology and...

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Recent engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish enlightenment

Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans - social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th century Scots...

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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans — social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18th century Scots...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020903

Hume : The Power of Abduction and Simple Observation in Economics

Streb, Jorge M. - 2010

In Hume’s epistemology, induction leads to discovery in matters of fact. However, because of the poor data Hume analyzes the balance of trade with a thought experiment, doing what Mill makes explicit afterwards: reason from assumptions, to reach conclusions which are true in the abstract....

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200 Years Darwin and 250 Years Theory of Moral Sentiments from Adam Smith/200 Jahre Darwin Und 250 Jahre Theory of Moral Sentiments Von Adam Smith

Bluemle, Gerold - 2010

250-year anniversary of Adam Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments”. Proceeding from the fact that Darwin as well as Robert … Malthus refer to a classical economist, it is investigated whether the analogies between Evolution Theory and Economy are …, indeed, stresses in his “Theory of Moral Sentiments” apart from the ‘self-interest’ principle, the meaning of the principle …

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Karl Mittermaier’s Pursuit of Classical Liberal Coherence

Klein, Daniel B. - 2020

of Economic Theory, being published in 2020 for the first time. Here I treat Mittermaier’s rich meditation, which I …

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On the Term 'Entrepreneur' and the Conceptualization of Entrepreneurship in the Literature of Classical Economics

Jonsson, Petur O. - 2017

Some of the literature on entrepreneurship suggests that the term entrepreneur was first introduced by either Cantillon or Say during the industrial revolution in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This article, by contrast, shows the term and the concept to be far older. Moreover, before the...

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Internal vs. External Explanations : A New Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Block, Walter E. - 2011

The present paper is devoted to showing that all externalist explanations for truth in economics are false, but that if there any are used, it should not be the democratic one utilized by Rosen (1997). Rather, even though it is equally fallacious, it should the one proposed in the present paper:...

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New scope, new sources, new methods? : an essay on contemporary scholarship in history of economic thought journals, 2016-2017

Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Herfeld, Catherine; … - 2018

This essay gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016 and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the literature, we focus on three major aspects - the scope, the sources, and the methods - with reference to which we discuss...

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