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Austrian Economics, Evolutionary Psychology and Methodological Dualism: Subjectivism Reconsidered

Vanberg, Viktor J. - 2004

The methodological individualism and subjectivism of the Austrian tradition in economics is often associated with a methodological dualism, i.e. the claim that the nature of its subject matter, namely purposeful and intentional human action, requires economics to adopt a methodology that is...

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Das Menschenbild in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Starbatty, Joachim - 1999

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The illusion of intergenerational preference aggregation: Limits of individualistic population ethics

Kolmar, Martin; Stolte, Klaus - 1996

of current and future individuals do not exist. The extension of social choice theory to intergenerational problems …

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Hayek Reads the Literature on the Emergence of Norms

Andreozzi, Luciano - 2005

Hayek's approach to cultural and institutional evolution has been frequently criticized because it is explicitly based on the controversial notion of (cultural) group selection. In this paper this criticism is rejected on the basis of recent works on biological and cultural evolution. The...

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Nominalism and Systemism: On the Non-Reductionist Nature of Methodological Individualism

Di Iorio, Francesco - 2013

-reductionist explanations that undermine the widespread theory of the equivalence between methodological individualism and reductionism. We will …

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Hayek's The Sensory Order and Gadamer's Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Di Iorio, Francesco - 2013

This article reinterprets Hayek's cognitive psychology from the standpoint of the categories employed by phenomenological hermeneutics, and notably by Gadamer. Both Hayek and Gadamer agree on the idea that consciousness is the outcome of a process of interpretation that depends on a 'shifting...

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Agent-based simulation as an implementation of methodological individualism

Di Iorio, Francesco; Chen, Shu-Heng - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and Agent-Based Simulation (ABS). We discuss and analyze a thesis defended by philosophers Caterina Marchionni and Petri Ylikoski (2013). The thesis maintains that, since MI is often considered to be a...

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The Desocialising of Economic Theory

Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 9, pp. 809-825

This paper aims to show that economic theory has become ‘desocialised’ and separated from social theory through the … content of economic theory has diminished, considering the reasons why. Desocialisation has stemmed from the desire for … methods. Such an artificial divide between economic theory and social theory is argued to be detrimental to all the …

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Economic patterns in a world with artificial intelligence

Wagner, Dirk Nicolas - In: Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 17 (2020) 1, pp. 111-131

This article outlines relevant economic patterns in a world with artificial intelligence (AI). Five specific economic patterns influenced by AI are discussed: (1) following in the footsteps of ‘homo economicus’ a new type of agent, ‘machina economica’, enters the stage of the global...

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The Current Non-Status of General Equilibrium Theory

Katzner, Donald W. - 2004

This paper argues that the abandonment of general equilibrium theory by microeconomists was a mistake. It provides …

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