Error in economics : towards a more evidence-based methodology / Julian Reiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiss, Julian.

Series:

Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology ; 8.

Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

1 Evidence-based economics: what it is and what it isn't 1

Part I Error in measurement 21

2 Methodology and expert judgment in evidence-based economics: lessons from the CPI controversy 23

3 Readdressing the quality-change issue 48

4 Measurement between the absolute and the arbitrary 60

Part II Error in experiment 83

5 For a new experimentalism in experimental economics 85

6 The role of theory in evidence-based economics: models, mechanisms and thought experiments 106

7 Practice ahead of theory: natural experiments and causal instrumental variables 126

Part III Error in policy analysis 147

8 Explanatory mechanisms and the aims of economics 149

9 Social capacities 166

10 Uncertainty in econometrics: evaluating policy counterfactuals / Nancy Cartwright 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780415391412

0415391415

9780203086797

0203086791

OCLC:

74522769