ABSTRACT
Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology. Explorations in Economic Methodology both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by the literature and argues that methodology is an essential activity. Offering a constructive, but critical, response to the recent literature, this collection provides important new insights for students and researchers in economic methodology and the philosophy of science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part |81 pages
Rethinking Lakatos
chapter |26 pages
The neo-Walrasian research programme in macroeconomics *
chapter |17 pages
Lakatos and Economics *
chapter |15 pages
Lakatosian perspectives on general equilibrium analysis *
chapter |21 pages
The Lakatosian legacy in economic methodology *
part |53 pages
Rhetoric and postmodernism in economics
chapter |8 pages
The hermeneutic challenge to economics
chapter |17 pages
Rhetoric and methodology *
chapter |14 pages
A decade of rhetoric *
chapter |12 pages
Should economists embrace postmodernism? *
part |43 pages
Economists on methodology
chapter |8 pages
The value of Post Keynesian economics
A neoclassical response to Harcourt and Hamouda
chapter |4 pages
Should we ignore methodology?
chapter |4 pages
Economic laws and economic history *
chapter |11 pages
Is there life in contemporary academic economics?
part |45 pages
Pragmatism and empirical philosophy of science