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The foundations of positive and normative economics : a handbook / edited by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Handbooks in economic methodologies series.
- The handbooks in economic methodologies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Methodology.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 382 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The goal of the current volume and the series it belongs to, is to formally open a dialogue on economic methodology. The editors' conviction is that such a debate will rebound to the benefit of social science in general, and economics in particular.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Introduction
- Volume Introduction
- PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
- 1. The Case for Mindless Economics
- PART II. THE DEBATE
- 2. The Case for Mindful Economics
- 3. What's So Informative about Choice?
- 4. On Two Points of View Regarding Revealed Preference and Behavioral Economics
- 5. Some Thoughts on the Principle of Revealed Preference
- 6. Mindless or Mindful Economics: A Methodological Evaluation
- PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NORMATIVE ECONOMICS
- 7. Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
- 8. Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences
- 9. The Economist as Therapist:Methodological Ramifications of "Light" Paternalism
- PART IV. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR POSITIVE ECONOMICS
- 10. Look-ups as the Windows of the Strategic Soul
- 11. Revealed Preference and Bounded Rationality
- 12. The Seven Properties of Good Models
- 13. Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods
- 14. Choice and Process: Theory Ahead of Measurement
- 15. Economic Theory and Psychological Data: Bridging the Divide
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-804396-1
- 0-19-974485-8
- 9786611342197
- 1-281-34219-X
- OCLC:
- 437096301
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