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Fact and fiction in economics models, realism and social construction /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Maki, Uskali.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Economics > Philosophy.
Economics > Methodology.
Electronic books.
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245 0 0 |a Fact and fiction in economics  |h [electronic resource] :  |b models, realism and social construction /  |c edited by Uskali Maki. 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2002. 
300 |a xvi, 384 p. :  |b ill. 
500 |a Proceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g I. Introduction: --  |t Dismal queen of the social sciences /  |r Uskali Maki --  |g II. Setting the scene: --  |t Ugly currents in modern economics /  |r Mark Blaug --  |t Modern economics and its critics /  |r Partha Dasgupta --  |t Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics /  |r Uskali Maki --  |g III. Economic models and economic reality: --  |t Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics /  |r Robert Sugden --  |t Limits of causal order, from economics to physics /  |r Nancy Cartwright --  |t Econometrics and reality /  |r Kevin D. Hoover --  |t Models, stories, and the economic world /  |r Mary S. Morgan -- Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods /  |r Roger E. Backhouse --  |t Truthlikeness and economic theories /  |r Ilkka Niiniluoto --  |g IV. The constitution of economic reality: --  |t Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" /  |r Philip Pettit --  |t Reality of common cultures /  |r Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap --  |t Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality /  |r Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer --  |t Hayek and cultural evolution /  |r Bruce Caldwell --  |t Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" /  |r Neil De Marchi --  |g V. The institutions of economics: --  |t You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric /  |r Deirdre N. McCloskey --  |t More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies /  |r D. Wade Hands --  |t Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? /  |r Jesus P. Zamora Bonilla 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Economics  |x Philosophy. 
650 0 |a Economics  |x Methodology. 
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