ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: UNDRSTANDING ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE BOUMANS M. DAVIS J. Księgarnia

Like other sciences, the study of economics has been shaped by rigorous arguments and debates that continue to influence economists today. In this fascinating introduction, Boumans and Davis consider the scientific nature of the methods, logic, and forms of explanation that underlie economics as a discipline.

JOHN B. DAVIS is Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics and Co-director of the faculty research programme 'Methodology and History of Economics' at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Economics at Marquette University, USA.

MARCEL BOUMANS is Associate Professor and Co-director of the faculty research programme 'Methodology and History of Economics' at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

The Received View of Science

Focus 1.1 Axiomatization - Focus 1.2 Models - Focus 1.3 Formalism

Methodologies of Positive Economics

Focus 2.1 Methodologies before Friedman - Focus 2.2 Measurement - Focus 2.3 Experiments

Popper’s Logic of Discovery

Focus 3.1 The Duhem-Quine Thesis - Focus 3.2 Popper’s Situational Analysis - Focus 3.3 Testing

Kuhn and Lakatos

Focus 4.1 Research Programs in Economics - Focus 4.2 Scientific Revolutions in Economics? - Focus 4.3 Facts

The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Focus 5.1 Economics as a Discipline - Focus 5.2 Case Study Research - Focus 5.3 Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist

Political Economy

Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism

Focus 6.1 Analogy and Metaphor - Focus 6.2 Paul Feyerabend - Focus 6.3 Realism and Causal Explanation in Economics

Value Judgements in Economics

Focus 7.1 Logical Positivism and Ordinalist Utility Theory- Focus 7.2 Neutral Science? - Focus 7.3 Naturalistic Legitimation

230 pages, Paperback

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