The Elgar companion to recent economic methodology / edited by John B. Davis and D. Wade Hands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, John Bryan.

Hands, D. Wade

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Elgar original reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Methodology.

Economics.

Economics--Research--Methodology.

Economics--Research.

Local Subjects:

Economics--Methodology.

Economics--Research--Methodology.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

x, 542 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2011.

Summary:

Contributors from universities around the world survey methods in economics that have developed since the 1990s. They cover the economics of behavior and choice; welfare and microeconomic policy; complexity and computation in economics; evolution and evolutionary economics; macroeconomics; and the economics profession, the media, and the public. Among specific topics are neuroeconomics and economic methodology, happiness and experienced utility, whether agent-based modeling is the right mathematics for the social sciences, a philosophical perspective on contemporary evolutionary economics, the role of theory and evidence in macroeconomics, and a preliminary study on the demography and content of the economic blogosphere. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : the changing character of economic methodology / John B. Davis and D. Wade Hands

Economics of behavior and choice. Behavioral economics / Floris Heukelom

Experimental economics / Ana C. Santos

Neuroeconomics and economic methodology / Don Ross

High-fidelity economics / Anna Alexandrova and Daniel M. Haybron

Welfare and microeconomic policy. Current trends in welfare measurement / Erik Angner

Happiness and experienced utility / Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta

Applied policy, welfare economics, and Mill's half-truths / David Colander

Economics as usual : geographical economics shaped by disciplinary conventions / Uskali Mäki and Caterina Marchionni

Complexity and computation in economics. Computational economics / Paola Tubaro

Agent-based modeling : the right mathematics for the social sciences? / Paul L. Borrill and Leigh Tesfatsion

Computing in economics / K. Vela Velupillai and Stefano Zambelli

Evolution and evolutionary economics. A philosophical perspective on contemporary evolutionary economics / Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Economics in a cultural key : complexity and evolution revisited / Kurt Dopfer

Heterogeneous economic evolution : a different view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics / Jack Vromen

Macroeconomics. Recent developments in macroeconomics : the DSGE approach to business cycles in perspective / Pedro Garcia Duarte

On the role of theory and evidence in macroeconomics / Katarina Juselius

Methodological issues in Keynesian macroeconomics / Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman

The dismal state of macroeconomics and the opportunity for a new beginning / L. Randall Wray

The economics profession, the media and the public. The spontaneous methodology of orthodoxy, and other economists' afflictions in the Great Recession / Philip Mirowski

Invasion of the bloggers : a preliminary study on the demography and content of the economic blogosphere / Tiago Mata.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781848447547

184844754X

9780857938244

085793824X

OCLC:

751735718

Publisher Number:

99963336998