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Author:   John B. Davis ,  D. Wade Hands
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9781848447547

ISBN 10:   184844754
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   29 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: 1. Introduction: The Changing Character of Economic Methodology John B. Davis and D. Wade Hands PART I: ECONOMICS OF BEHAVIOR AND CHOICE 2. Behavioral Economics Floris Heukelom 3. Experimental Economics Ana C. Santos 4. Neuroeconomics and Economic Methodology Don Ross 5. High-Fidelity Economics Anna Alexandrova and Daniel M. Haybron PART II: WELFARE AND MICROECONOMIC POLICY 6. Current Trends in Welfare Measurement Erik Angner 7. Happiness and Experienced Utility Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta 8. Applied Policy, Welfare Economics, and Mill's Half-Truths David Colander 9. Economics as Usual: Geographical Economics Shaped by Disciplinary Conventions Uskali Maki and Caterina Marchionni PART III: COMPLEXITY AND COMPUTATION IN ECONOMICS 10. Computational Economics Paola Tubaro 11. Agent-based Modeling: The Right Mathematics for the Social Sciences? Paul L. Borrill and Leigh Tesfatsion 12. Computing in Economics K. Vela Velupillai and Stefano Zambelli PART IV: EVOLUTION AND EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS 13. A Philosophical Perspective on Contemporary Evolutionary Economics Geoffrey M. Hodgson 14. Economics in a Cultural Key: Complexity and Evolution Revisited Kurt Dopfer 15. Heterogeneous Economic Evolution: A Different View on Darwinizing Evolutionary Economics Jack Vromen PART V: MACROECONOMICS 16. Recent Developments in Macroeconomics: The DSGE Approach to Business Cycles in Perspective Pedro Garcia Duarte 17. On the Role of Theory and Evidence in Macroeconomics Katarina Juselius 18. Methodological Issues in Keynesian Macroeconomics Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman 19. The Dismal State of Macroeconomics and the Opportunity for a New Beginning L. Randall Wray PART VI: THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION, THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC 20. The Spontaneous Methodology of Orthodoxy, and Other Economists' Afflictions in the Great Recession Philip Mirowski 21. Invasion of the Bloggers: A Preliminary Study on the Demography and Content of the Economic Blogosphere Tiago Mata Index

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Edited by John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and D. Wade Hands, Professor of Economics, University of Puget Sound, US and co-editor, Journal of Economic Methodology

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