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Part I. Classic Discussions: 1. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber; 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins; 4. Economics and human action Fran… Mehr…

Part I. Classic Discussions: 1. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber; 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins; 4. Economics and human action Frank Knight; 5. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   The Philosophy of Economics by Daniel M. Hausman An anthology of works concerning the nature of economics as a science. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and bibliography bringing this volume up to date. No other anthology spans the whole field and offers a comprehensive introduction to questions about economic methodology. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description An anthology of works on the philosophy of economics, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and a bibliography. The volume contains 26 chapters organized into five parts: (I) Classic Discussions, (II) Positivist and Popperian Views, (III) Ideology and Normative Economics, (IV) Branches and Schools of Economics and Their Methodological Problems and (V) New Directions in Economic Methodology. It includes crucial historical contributions by figures such as Mill, Marx, Weber, Robbins, Knight, and Veblen and works by most of the leading contemporary figures writing on economic methodology, including five Nobel Laureates in Economics. Author Biography Daniel M. Hausman is Herbert A. Simon Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He previously taught at the University of Maryland at College Park and Carnegie Mellon University. Most of his research has focused on methodological, metaphysical, and ethical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy, and in collaboration with Michael McPherson, he founded the Cambridge University Press journal Economics and Philosophy and edited it for its first ten years. His most important books include The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (1992), Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy (co-authored with Michael McPherson, 1996), Causal Asymmetries (1998) and Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (an enlarged second edition of the 1996 book co-authored with Michael McPherson, 2006). Table of Contents Part I. Classic Discussions: 1. On the definition and method of political economy John Stuart Mill; 2. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber; 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins; 4. Economics and human action Frank Knight; 5. Philosophical foundations of economics: three texts Karl Marx; 6. The limitations of marginal utility Thorstein Veblen; Part II. Positivist and Popperian Views: 7. The methodology of positive economics Milton Friedman; 8. Testability and approximation Herbert Simon; 9. Why look under the hood? Daniel M. Hausman; 10. Popper and Lakatos in economic methodology D. Wade Hands; Part III. Ideology and Normative Economics: 11. Science and ideology Joseph Schumpeter; 12. Welfare propositions of economics and interpersonal comparisons of utility Nicholas Kaldor; 13. The philosophical foundations of mainstream normative economics Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson; 14. Why is cost-benefit analysis so controversial? Robert Frank; 15. Capability and well-being Amartya Sen; Part IV. Branches and Schools of Economics and their Methodological Problems: 16. Econometrics as observation: the Lucas critique and the nature of econometric inference Kevin Hoover; 17. Does macroeconomics need microfoundations? Kevin Hoover; 18. Economics in the laboratory Vernon Smith; 19. Neuroeconomics: using neuroscience to make economic predictions Colin F. Camerer; 20. The market as a creative process James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg; 21. What is the essence of institutional economics? Geoffrey Hodgson; Part V. New Directions in Economic Methodology: 22. The rhetoric of this economics Deirdre McCloskey; 23. Realism Uskali Mäki; 24. What has realism got to do with it? Tony Lawson; 25. Feminism and economics Julie Nelson; 26. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics Robert Sugden. Promotional This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays. Long Description This is a comprehensive anthology of works concerning the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Apart from the classics, most of the selections in the third edition are new, as are the introduction and bibliography. No other anthology spans the whole field and offers a comprehensive introduction to questions about economic methodology. Promotional "Headline" This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays. Description for Bookstore An anthology of works concerning the nature of economics as a science. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and bibliography bringing this volume up to date. No other anthology spans the whole field and offers a comprehensive introduction to questions about economic methodology. Description for Library An anthology of works concerning the nature of economics as a science. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and bibliography bringing this volume up to date. 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Hausman Short Title PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS 3/E Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English Edition 3rd ISBN-10 0521883504 ISBN-13 9780521883504 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 330.01 Year 2007 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle An Anthology Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1947 Replaces 9780521453110 Affiliation University of Wisconsin, Madison DOI 10.1604/9780521883504 UK Release Date 2007-12-17 AU Release Date 2007-12-17 NZ Release Date 2007-12-17 Illustrations 1 Tables, unspecified Pages 536 Edition Description 3rd Revised edition Publication Date 2007-12-17 Alternative 9780511819025 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! 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