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Criticizing the critique: some methodological insights into the debate on the state of economic theory in the face of the post 2008 crisis

Hardt, Łukasz - In: Bank i kredyt 41 (2010) 4, pp. 7-22

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Simplicity and Explanation in the Economic Theory (Sencillez y Explicación en la Teoría Económica) (Spanish)

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

The present paper, following the philosophical work of Robert Nozick, intends to develop the approach of simplicity in the economic investigation. This purpose contributes to structure a heuristic for projects of investigation that can serve like mark of discussion of grade projects in the...

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Reflecting on beyond positivism at thirty-five

Caldwell, Bruce - 2017

In 1982 my book Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century was published. At the 2017 History of Economics society meeting, a session was held to mark the 35th anniversary of that event. Papers by Wade Hands, Kevin Hoover, Tony Lawson, and the trio Peter Boettke, Solomon...

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Economics as a rhetorical language game

Almeida, Raquel Mesquita - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 24 (2023) 1, pp. 24-43

Purpose This paper aims to argue that Economics is not a neutral science. Design/methodology/approach Post-structuralist perspective of Lyotard (1984), alongside the Pragmatics of Searle (1979) and Travis (1981) are useful for analyzing enunciations in mainstream Economics. Findings Economists...

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What are axiomatizations good for?

Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; … - 2018

In light of the interest in axiomatic models of decision making in recent years, one is led to ask, in what ways do axiomatic derivations advance positive economics? If economists are interested in predicting how people behave, without a pretense to change individual decision making, how can...

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On the question of the relevance of economics as a science : postmodern filosofia critique

Jackson, E. A. - 2018

This article has adopted an open discourse in addressing pertinent concerns about the scientific existence of economics as a discipline. In doing so, some (critical) Filosofia arguments have been provided in ensuring that a well balanced approach is taken on the subject. Obviously, the approach...

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Could Homo Oeconomicus Become a Revolutionary? : On the Need to Teach and Practice a Different Economics

DeVillé, Philippe; Arnsperger, Christian - 2012

This paper investigates the standard economic paradigm as to the possibility for the agents to become revolutionaries, i.e., to develop the desire and effective action to overturn the prevailing social order. We take our cue from Amartya Sen’s remark that the Second Fundamental Theorem of...

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Quantum Economic Spirality

Ternyik, Stephen I. - 2014

The methodical feasability of new visual models for creative economic prudence is discussed and reviewed; some pathways for 3-4D thinking are shown. A brief scientific discourse on the biophysical limits of economic systems behavior is given, focusing on the role of future management and...

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Machomatics in Egonomics

McGoun, Elton G. - 1998

Mathematics, like medieval Latin, is a medium of disputation in economics wherein those skillful in its use can subdue … those who are not, independent of any substantive economic meaning. In so using mathematics, economics has shut itself off … from much of the richness of economic activity that is impossible to express in the language of mathematics and from the …

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Philosophy and a Scientific Future of the History of Economics

Schliesser, Eric S. - 2006

I argue that economists have reasons internal to the way that evidence works in the sciences to re-discover the importance of the history of their own discipline. For it is a constitutive element of science - here conceived as an ongoing research practice (as opposed to as an explanatory...

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