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Models and Fictions in (Micro-)Economics
Wichardt, Philipp C. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
for policy recommendations? Over the years, a variety of concerns regarding (micro-)economic modelling and its relevance … imagined), the often extensive story telling in economic modelling (adapting the model to a context and suggesting comparisons … with "reality") as well as for empirical studies putting economic modelling to the test (exploring properties of the real …
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Liberalismo, legge, normatività. Per una rilettura epistemologica del dibattito Croce-Einaudi
Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Italian abstract: In questo saggio intendo rileggere, disarticolare e problematizzare il dibattito Einaudi-Croce sul rapporto tra liberismo e liberalismo muovendo da una prospettiva epistemologica lato sensu costruttivista, volta a mostrare l’insufficienza esplicativa della dicotomia...
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Pluralismus in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Klärungen eines umstrittenen Konzepts. Expertise für die Hans Böckler Stiftung
Heise, Arne - 2016
Nicht erst seit der jüngsten Weltfinanzkrise wird über den Zustand der Wirtschaftswissenschaft diskutiert. Vielfach wird die Einseitigkeit der Disziplin beklagt und eine Pluralisierung gefordert. Allerdings besteht weder Einigkeit über die Form des anzustrebenden Pluralismus - ist also z.B....
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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015
Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th-century Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans—social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th-century...
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The Crisis in Economic Theory: A Review Essay
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015
The Great Recession and the financial crisis of 2007-09 prompted ca lls for fundamental reforms of economic theory. The role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist Richard Swedberg's The Art of Social Theory and the...
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Situational Analysis
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2016
Situational analysis (also known as situational logic) was popularized by Karl Popper as an appropriate method for the interpretation of history and as a basis for a scientific social science. It seeks an objective posit ive explanation of behavior through imputing a dominant goal or motive to...
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"I had always operated on the outside": A conversation with E. Roy Weintraub on the history of economics, science studies and academic morals
Giraud, Yann - 2019
A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...
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Models, truth, and analytic inference in economics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2019
. Models are frequently treated as convenient fictions, idealizations, stories about credible worlds, or "near enough" to the …
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The economic mathematization: A bibliometric analysis
Laera, Rodrigo - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 1 (2018) 3
The aim of this paper is to present data to verify the process of mathematization in economic theory. For this we used two representative samples from three of the most in fluential academic journals in the years 1955-56-57 and the years 2015-16-17. Thus, a contingency table was drawn up,...
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Understanding the shift from micro to macro-prudential thinking: A discursive network analysis
Thiemann, Matthias; Aldegwy, Mohamed; Ibrocevic, Edin - 2016
While some economists argued for macro-prudential regulation pre-crisis, the macro-prudential approach and its emphasis on endogenously created systemic risk have only gained prominence post-crisis. Employing discourse and network analysis on samples of the most cited scholarly works on banking...
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