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Econometrics: an appraisal
van Meerhaeghe, Marcel A.G. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 316-325
Econometrics labours under the same limitations as economics: it rests on unrealistic hypotheses (and non … art for art’s sake: econometrics becomes abstract mathematisation.  …
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Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Ramírez, Rafael; Selin, Cynthia - In: Foresight 16 (2014) 1, pp. 54-74
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario …. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveys the history of both terms in both the English language and more narrowly …
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Methodological Aspects of Eucken′s Work
Herrmann‐Pillath, Carsten - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) 4, pp. 46-60
Describes the methodological ideas of Eucken and points to the actual significance of them. Eucken is, in his thinking on philosophical and methodological problems, related to Husserl. The theory of the economic order ( Ordnungs‐theorie ) is interdisciplinary. All kinds of modern directions in...
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Roscher’s epistemological and methodological position
Milford, Karl - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 3/4/5, pp. 26-52
According to a widely accepted view, the Methodenstreit between the historical and Austrian school was the result of misunderstandings. Argues that it was rather the outcome of different solutions to genuine philosophical and methodological problems, in particular to a demarcation problem....
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Beyond Roscher or not? A reappraisal of Menger’s and Böhm‐Bawerk’s contributions to the theory of interest
Tomo, Shigeki - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 3/4/5, pp. 127-133
Outlines the difference between the attitude of Menger and that of Böhm‐Bawerk to Roscher′s economic system. Argues that this difference symbolizes the difference in their theoretical contributions in the field of interest theory. Contrasts Menger′s use of theoretic assumption with...
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Mathematics in economics: Schmoller, Menger and Jevons
Reiss, Julian - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 477-491
Investigates the economic methodologies of Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons and Gustav Schmoller with respect to the issue of whether mathematics is or is not an adequate language to express economic relationships. First, Menger’s and Jevons’s respective methodologies are identified as...
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Economic Evolution and Selection: Old Controversies and New Approaches
Gowdy, John M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 12, pp. 4-13
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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The Dehumanisation of Economic Science: In Search of the Appropriate Methodology
Riha, Tomas J.F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 12, pp. 47-63
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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John Maynard Keynes and Alvin Hansen
Hill, Lewis E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 3, pp. 24-30
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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Valuing socio‐diversity
O’Hara, Sabine U. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 5, pp. 31-49
methodology.  …
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