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Reassessing contemporary macroeconomics on methodological grounds : a Weberian approach

Galbács, Peter - 2016

Through this paper I try to join the lively debate around mainstream economics with a view to calling attention to some methodological aspects. It is aimed at outlining an interpretation based on Max Weber's traditional neoclassical methodology that can help us to find the adequate territory of...

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Reflecting on beyond positivism at thirty-five

Caldwell, Bruce - 2017

In 1982 my book Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century was published. At the 2017 History of Economics society meeting, a session was held to mark the 35th anniversary of that event. Papers by Wade Hands, Kevin Hoover, Tony Lawson, and the trio Peter Boettke, Solomon...

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Institutional economics and John Dewey's instrumentalism

Rutherford, Malcolm - 2022

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Models, truth, and analytic inference in economics

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2019 - Revised, 31 December 2018

truth. But such a understandings pose serious questions, among them: if models are false, how is it that they are so useful …, useful only to the degree that they are instruments for stating truth. The confusion arises from a failure to understand how …

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Truth vs. justification : contrasting heterodox and mainstream thinking on development via the example of austerity in Africa

Sindzingre, Alice - 2021

validity of theory is truth. In contrast, a policymaker's domain is action, and the criterion of validity is the efficiency of … the policy given its goals, as well as that of justification. The fact that a policymaker is indifferent to the truth (or … international agencies can discard overnight the theories that have previously demonstrated the truth of the causalities underlying …

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Towards an integrated framework for resolving ethical dilemmas

Gandhi, Manan; Gupta, Vishal - 2022

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Neuroscience and reductionism : some realist reflections

Edwards, Paul K. - 2013

possible for practitioners and critics to engage. Such engagement is facilitated by realism. It agrees with the practitioners …

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Saving realist prudence

Guzzini, Stefano - 2019

Samuel Barkin's "Realist Constructivism" has often been read as a way to synthesise realist theory and constructivist meta-theory. Guzzini argues that it is better understood as an attempt to combine realist foreign policy doctrine with constructivist theory. It is an invitation to explore...

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Der Bruch der Theorie in der Praxis durch Not : Bemerkungen zu Lujo Brentanos Sicht von Arbeitsmarktproblemen

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2005

Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular …

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What drives interstate balancing? : estimations of domestic and systemic factors

Abb, Pascal - 2013

This paper reviews contending realist assumptions about domestic and systemic impulses for balancing behavior, derives a set of corresponding hypotheses for state actions and submits them to a statistical large‐n analysis for testing. A total of 18 highly conflict-prone dyads of states are...

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