ABSTRACT

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960s and 1970s. In a compelling and comprehensive argument, Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies. He gradually develops a methodological model of idealizations that explains both the progress of the debate and the historical iron

chapter 1|13 pages

The K that wouldn’t go away

wouldn’t

chapter 2|6 pages

The background of the debate: some

history

chapter 3|19 pages

Clouds in the neoclassical sky

chapter 4|19 pages

Taking methodological stock (I)

chapter 6|9 pages

Taking methodological stock (II)

antipodean idealizationmodel

chapter 7|17 pages

From curiosum to issue

chapter 8|19 pages

Neoclassical reactions

chapter 9|9 pages

Taking methodological stock (III)

chapter 10|22 pages

The role of mathematics

chapter 11|7 pages

Taking methodological stock (IV)

sorcerer’s apprentices

chapter 12|21 pages

A final stock-taking