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a thoughtful, sustained reflection...a valuable contribution to the growing literature in the philosophy or economics.-ETHICS

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Author:   Wade D. Hands
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780847677245

ISBN 10:   0847677249
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   26 December 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"The Methodology of Economic Research Programs; Wong on Samuelson's Revealed Preference Theory; The Role of Crucial Counterexamples in the Growth of Economic Knowledge - Two Case Studies in the Recent History of Economic Thought; Blaug's Economic Methodology; Second Thoughts on Lakatos; Second Thought on ""Second Thoughts"" - Reconsidering the Lakatosian Progress of ""The General Theory""; Karl Popper and Economic Methodology - A New Look; Ad Hocness in Economics and Popperioan Philosophy; Falsification, Situational Analysis and Scientific Research Programs - The Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology; The Problem of Excess Content - Economics, Novelty, and a Long Popperian Tale; The Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology - What's Left?"

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D. Wade Hands is one of the three or four leading figures currently working on economic methodology ... The essays are philosophically sound, and the scholarship is impeccable. This volume is must reading for everyone with a serious interest in economic methodology. -- Daniel M. Hausman, University of Wisconsin, Madison Hands is better on what is good and what is questionable in the Popperian tradition than anyone, Popper included. It is a tour de force. -- Bruce J. Caldwell, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Most economists harbor aspirations to be philosophers, but Wade Hands is one of the handful who manage to effortlessly meld both personas successfully. This book will be the last word on the relationship between Popper and orthodox economics, and the first word on how to transcend those superceded notions of science. It is an instant classic of economic methodology. -- Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame ... a thoughtful, sustained reflection... [by] a methodologically sophisticated economist... a valuable contribution to the growing literature in the philosophy of economics. Ethics ... [a] clear diagnosis ... Ricerche Economiche

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D. Wade Hands, associate professor of economics at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Introductory Mathematical Economics and many articles on economic methodology and the history of economic thought.

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