Is there progress in economics? : knowledge, truth and the history of economic thought / edited by Stephen Boehm ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boehm, Stephan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

History.

Progress--History.

Progress.

Physical Description:

xxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Progress: A Contested Concept?

1. Does progress matter? / Donald Winch 3

2. Is there really progress in economics? / Mark Blaug 21

Part II Progress in the History of Ideas: Alternative Approaches

3. On applying Foucauldian methods to the history of economic thought / Klaus Hamberger 45

4. A conservative approach to progress in economics / Jack Birner 65

5. Metaphors in the Wealth of Nations / Sergio Cremaschi 89

Part III Roundtable: Is There Progress in Economics?

6. On progress and the history of economic thought / Roger E. Backhouse 117

7. Scientific progress: complexities of a contestable concept / Uskali Maki 123

8. Progress in economics / Luigi Pasinetti 131

9. Apparent progress due to forgetfulness or reinterpretation / Erich W. Streissler 136

Part IV Normative Economics

10. Is there progress in normative economics? / Philippe Mongin 145

Part V Monetary Economics

11. New lines of research in monetary economics / Augusto Graziani 173

12. The credit theory of Carl Knies / Hans-Michael Trautwein 193

Part VI Trade and Location

13. On the new economic geography and the progress of geographical economics / Stephen J. Meardon 217

14. How new is the 'new trade theory' of the past two decades? / Andrea Maneschi 240

15. The 'institutional factor' in the theory of international trade: new vs. old trade theories / Sergio Parrinello 256

16. Location theory and mathematical programming: progress or rediscovery? / Manuel Fernandez-Lopez 273

Part VII Currents of Thought

17. Contemporary responses to the Tableau Economique / Richard van den Berg 295

18. Progress in Austrian economics from Menger to Lachmann / Sandye Gloria-Palermo 317

19. Walras' law and the IS-LM model: a tale of progress and regress / Hansjorg Klausinger 333

20. Information costs, deliberation costs and transaction costs: a parallel treatment / Maurice Lagueux 356

Part VIII Reflections on the Classical Long-Period Method

21. Produced quantities and returns in Sraffa's theory of normal prices: textual evidence and analytical issues / Fabio Ravagnani 371

22. On the long-period method: a comment on Ravagnani / Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori 383

23. Sraffa's price equations: a stationary economy or 'normal positions'? / Pierangelo Garegnani 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840646837

OCLC:

48074812