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100 1 $aBirner, Jack,$d1951-
245 14 $aThe Cambridge controversies in capital theory :$ba study in the logic of theory development /$cJack Birner.
246 30 $aControversies in capital theory
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2002.
300 $axviii, 206 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aRoutledge studies in the history of economics ;$v47
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [188]-201) and index.
505 0 $aThe K that wouldn't go away -- The sleepwalker effect -- Levels and problems -- Idealizations and the method of economics: some historical background -- The way forward -- A brief exposition of reswitching and capital reversing -- The model -- Characteristic propositions of neoclassical production theory -- Perversities and anomalies -- The background of the debate: some history -- Robinson's research programme -- Discontinuities in the recent history of economic thought -- Clouds in the neoclassical sky -- Robinson defines the problem -- Champernowne's solution -- Robinson returns to the problem -- Taking methodological stock (I) -- The Polish idealization model -- Back to the capital theory debate -- Correspondence and factualization -- An excursion into the philosophy of science -- Better roughly right than precisely wrong? -- An example of correspondence -- Triumph and crisis of the neoclassical production model -- Neoclassical triumph -- Crisis for the neoclassical model -- Taking methodological stock (II) -- The antipodean idealization model -- Aiming at a complete model of idealizations -- From curiosum to issue -- A little theorem with big consequences -- The symposium -- Neoclassical reactions -- Hicks hunts the snark -- Brown pursues the trail -- More neoclassical resources are mobilized -- Taking methodological stock (III) -- Tactics and moves -- Strategies and likelihoods -- AIM and PIM reconsidered -- Weapons -- The role of mathematics -- Mathematics as a neutral instrument -- Mathematics as an integral part of scientific discovery -- The adoption of mathematics by economists -- The dialectics of mathematics and science -- Taking methodological stock (IV) -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- From the science of mathematics to the mathematics of science -- Proofs and programmes -- Proofs, programmes, and strategies -- Historical ironies -- The ironies explained: sleepwalking on the object level -- Empirical versus formal arguments: sleepwalking on the meta level -- What do research programmes do? -- Presuppositions as heuristics -- Modelling presuppositions -- Presuppositions and the logic of discovery -- Methodological spin-off -- Different models for different purposes? Three types of pluralism -- Idealization: between instrument and explanation.
650 0 $aCapital.
650 0 $aNeoclassical school of economics.
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