An edition of Fact and fiction in economics
(2002)
Fact and fiction in economics
models, realism and social construction
by Uskali Mäki
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction:
Dismal queen of the social sciences -- Uskali Mäki -- II. Setting the scene:
Ugly currents in modern economics -- Mark Blaug
Modern economics and its critics -- Partha Dasgupta
Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics -- Uskali Mäki -- III. Economic models and economic reality:
Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics -- Robert Sugden
Limits of causal order, from economics to physics -- Nancy Cartwright
Econometrics and reality -- Kevin D. Hoover
Models, stories, and the economic world -- Mary S. Morgan -- Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods / -- Roger E. Backhouse
Truthlikeness and economic theories -- Ilkka Niiniluoto -- IV. The constitution of economic reality:
Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" -- Philip Pettit
Reality of common cultures -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality -- Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer
Hayek and cultural evolution -- Bruce Caldwell
Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" -- Neil De Marchi -- V. The institutions of economics:
You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric -- Deirdre N. McCloskey
More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies -- D. Wade Hands
Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? -- Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997.
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