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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613813
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609829
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761432
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Institutional economics and John Dewey's instrumentalism
Rutherford, Malcolm - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013283893
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759973
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Models, truth, and analytic inference in economics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951718
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437885
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950334
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431245
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Towards an integrated framework for resolving ethical dilemmas
Gandhi, Manan; Gupta, Vishal - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369260