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Mentalism versus behaviourism in economics: a philosophy-of-science perspective

Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...

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P. P. Carp’s „Germanophilia”

BOCANCEA, Lecturer Ph.D. Student Silvia - In: Conferinta Stiintifica Internationala Logos … 1 (2011) February, pp. 43-43

In the public conscience as well as in specialized literature, P.P. Carp, the conservative political man, appears as one of the most vehement „Germanophiles” in modern Romania, an attitudinal immobility which had supposedly ruined his perception on the course of history. According to the...

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L'enquête de victimation américaine : de l'étude compréhensive à l'analyse des facteurs de risque (1965-1985)

Benbouzid, Bilel - In: Revue française de socio-Economie n° 5 (2010) 1, pp. 63-82

In this article, we make a return on the conditions of invention and institutionalization of the American Victimization Survey. We return to the work of actors who initiated this innovation, and the political and social context of their endeavour. This research identifies a functional change in...

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Trade and Conflict: Proximity, Country Size, and Measures

Keshk, Omar M.G.; Reuveny, Rafael; Pollins, Brian M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 27 (2010) 1, pp. 3-27

The effect of trade on military conflict is one of the most important questions in international relations. Liberals argue that trade brings peace, neo-realists and neo-Marxists reason that trade brings conflict, while classical realists contend that trade has no impact on conflict. This article...

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Individualismul metodologic: principiu esenţial în cunoaşterea ştiinţifică a realităţii sociale

Alexandru, Odea - In: Revista OEconomica (2010) 03

This article tries to make evident the fact that the scientific endeavour of “macro”-behaviouristic-empiricist paradigms does not have a real basis because it is not grounded on the ultimate principle of society: human action. The emphasis of this article is on the perspective that the most...

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Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics

Hoover, Kevin D. - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010

Econometricians tend to hold simultaneously two views in tension with each other: an apparent anti-realism that holds … that all models are false and at best useful constructs or approximations to true models and an apparent realism that … Giere’s perspectival realism. Perspectival realism can itself be seen as a species of pragmatism, as that term is understood …

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Pluralism and deformalisation as mechanisms in the achievement of more equitable and just outcomes – the move from „Classical Formalism“ to deformalisation.

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

harnessed in order to provide for greater „realism“ and externalities, whilst still attaining a respectable level of consistency …

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Third-party trade, political similarity, and dyadic conflict

Peterson, Timothy M - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 2, pp. 185-200

on trade and conflict. When extending the relative gains arguments associated with realism beyond the dyad, a clear, yet …

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Taking reasonable pluralism seriously: an internal critique of political liberalism

Freyenhagen, Fabian - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 10 (2011) 3, pp. 323-342

The later Rawls attempts to offer a non-comprehensive, but nonetheless moral justification in political philosophy. Many critics of political liberalism doubt that this is successful, but Rawlsians often complain that such criticisms rely on the unwarranted assumption that one cannot offer a...

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An Epistemic Analysis of (Un)Sustainable Business

Birkin, Frank; Polesie, Thomas - In: Journal of Business Ethics 103 (2011) 2, pp. 239-253

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