The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy / edited by John B. Davis, Alain Marciano, Jochen Runde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, John Bryan.

Marciano, Alain

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Economics--History.

History.

Economics--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 509 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Economics and philosophy

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2004]

Contents:

Natural law, natural history and the foundations of political economy / José Luís Cardoso

The historical and philosophical foundations of new political economy / Alain Marciano

Economic rationality / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

From imperialism to inspiration: a survey of economics and psychology / Bruno S. Frey, Matthias Benz

Institutional economics: from Menger and Veblen to Coase and North / Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Taking evolution seriously: what difference does it make for economics? / Jake J. Vromen

Normative economics and theories of distributive justice / Marc Fleurbaey

Ideology: an economic point of view / Alain Leroux

The methodology of scientific research programmes / Roger E. Backhouse

Constructivism: the social construction of scientific knowledge / D. Wade Hands

From feminist empiricism to feminist poststructuralism: philosophical questions in feminist economics / Drucilla K. Barker

Rhetoric and postmodernism in economics / Robert F. Garnett

Models in economics / Marcel Boumans

Formalism / Peter Kesting, Arnis Vilks

Methodological individualism and economics / Harold Kincaid

Philosophical under-labouring in the context of modern economics: aiming at truth and usefulness in the meanest of ways / Tony Lawson

The conflict between formalism and realisticness in modern economics: the case of the new institutional economics / Stephen Pratten

Structure and agency in economic analysis: the case of Austrian economics and the material embeddedness of socio-economic life / Paul A. Lewis

Collective intentionality, complex economic behavior, and valuation / John B. Davis

Descartes' legacy: intersubjective reality, intrasubjective theory / Edward Fullbrook

Information, knowledge and modelling economic agency / Philip Faulkner, Jochen Runde

Conceptions of probability / Charles R. McCann

Money / Geoffrey Ingham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

184064964X

9781840649642

OCLC:

54929315