This volume confronts and debates the issues faced by the growing field of experimental economics. For example, as experimental work attempts to test theory, it raises questions about the proper relationship between theory and experiments.

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Author: Guillaume R. Fréchette

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780195328325

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 477

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This volume confronts and debates the issues faced by the growing field of experimental economics. For example, as experimental work attempts to test theory, it raises questions about the proper relationship between theory and experiments. As experimental results are used to inform policy, the utility of these results outside the lab is questioned, and finally, as experimental economics tries to integrate ideas from other disciplines like psychology and neuroscience, the question of their proper place in the discipline of economics becomes less clear.

Introduction Our goal for the Handbook of Economic Methodology was to provide a detailed and comprehensive coverage of the field of economic methodology . Since economic methodology has only become a self - conscious research area ...

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Author: John Bryan Davis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

ISBN: STANFORD:36105022342658

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 572

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A multidisciplinary reference in which over 100 commissioned essays provide details of topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduce a variety of emerging themes that economic methodologists have begun to explore. The encyclopedia- type articles discuss such topics as aggregation, evolutionary economics, Otto Neurath, survey methods, Thorstein Veblen, selectionist arguments, the marginalist controversy, game theory, economic sociology, and causality. Each includes an extensive bibliography. Practicing economists and students of the philosophy or history of economics might find useful information and an entry into deeper investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This volume pulls together a remarkable collection of contributors designed to challenge the positive-normative dichotomy in economic methodology.

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Author: Jan Peil

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781848449305

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 624

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This volume pulls together a remarkable collection of contributors designed to challenge the positive-normative dichotomy in economic methodology. . . The intent of this publication is to provide a reference manual for those seeking insights into the connections between economics and ethics. It succeeds in that goal and should become a starting point for anyone who believes that mainstream economics needs methodological reorientation. . . Anyone interested in ethics and economic methodology would do well to have this reference book handy. Highly recommended. J. Halteman, Choice This new Handbook of Economics and Ethics makes a substantial contribution as a wide-ranging up-to-date reference work, including original developments, on these two fundamentally interconnected fields. This contribution is particularly timely, given the increasing attention being paid to economics as a moral science. The Handbook contains seventy-five expert entries on subjects ranging from the history of economics and philosophy to conceptual analysis of ethics in various aspects of modern economics, while representing a diversity of views. Sheila Dow, University of Stirling, UK The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at the intersection of economics and ethics. Irene van Staveren and Jan Peil bring together 75 unique and original papers to provide up-to-date insights on topics such as markets, globalization, human development, rationality, efficiency, and corporate social responsibility. The book presents contributions from an array of international scholars using methodological and theoretical approaches, and convincingly demonstrates the death of the positive/normative dichotomy that so long held economics in its grip. This invaluable resource will strongly appeal to students of economics and economic methodology, philosophy of science and ethics. It will also be of great benefit to academics and policy-makers involved in economic policies and ethics.

Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Kahn, R. F. 1959. “Exercises in the Analysis of Growth.” Oxford Economic Papers, n.s. 11(2): 143–56. Kaldor, N. 1972. “The Irrelevance ofEquilibrium ...

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Author: G. C. Harcourt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199359233

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 528

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This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital flows, the environment, methodological issues, criticism of mainstream economics and Post-Keynesian policies. The Introduction outlines what is in the two volumes, in the process placing Post-Keynesian procedures and contributions in appropriate contexts.

Glaser, B.G. (2007), 'Doing formal theory', in A. Bryant and K. Charmaz (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory, Los Angeles, ... The Handbook of Economic Methodology, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp.

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Author: The Late Frederic S. Lee

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781782548461

Category: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Page: 640

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Despite the important methodological critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant research method taught in heterodox programmes remains econometrics. This compelling Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of alternative research methods, invaluable for analysing the data prominent in heterodox studies. Providing a solid basis for a mixed methods approach to economic investigations, the expertly crafted contributions are split into three distinct sections: philosophical foundation and research strategy, research methods and data collection, and applications. Introductions to a host of invaluable methods such as survey, historical, ethnographic, experimental and mixed approaches, together with factor, cluster, complex and social network analytics, are complemented by descriptions of applications in practice. Practical and expansive, this Handbook is highly pertinent for students and scholars of economics, particularly those dedicated to heterodox approaches, as it provides a solid reference for mixed methods not available in mainstream economics research methods courses.

Engineering Dynamic Economics. History of Political Economy, 29, 41–62. Sent, E.-M. (1998c). Artificial Intelligence. In J. B. Davis, D. W. Hands, and U. Mäki (eds), The Handbook of Economic Methodology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 22–5.

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Author: Roger Frantz

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317589242

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 434

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There is no doubt that behavioral economics is becoming a dominant lens through which we think about economics. Behavioral economics is not a single school of thought but representative of a range of approaches, and uniquely, this volume presents an overview of them. The wide spectrum of international contributors each provides an exploration of a central approach, aspect or topic in behavorial economics. Taken together, the whole volume provides a comprehensive overview of the subject which considers both key developments and future possibilities. Part One presents several different approaches to behavioural economics, including George Katona, Ken Boulding, Harvey Leibenstein, Vernon Smith, Herbert Simon, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman, and Richard Thaler. This section looks at the origins and development of behavioral economics and compares and contrasts the work of these scholars who have been so influential in making this area so prominent. Part Two presents applications of behavioural economics including nudging; heuristics; emotions and morality; behavioural political economy, education, and economic innovation. The Routledge Handbook of Behavioral Economics is ideal for advanced economics students and faculty who are looking for a complete state-of-the-art overview of this dynamic field.

Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post—Keynesian Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Kahn, R. F. 1959. “Exercises in the Analysis of Growth.” Oxford Economic Papers, n.s. 11(2): 143—56Kaldor, N. 1972. “The Irrelevance ofEquilibrium ...

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Author: G. C. Harcourt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780195390759

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 528

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These two volumes cover the principal areas to which Post-Keynesian economists have made distinctive contributions. The contents include the significant criticism by Post-Keynesians of mainstream economics, but the emphasis is on positive Post-Keynesian analysis of the economic problems of the modern world and of policies with which to tackle them.

American Economic Review 76(4):728–741. Kessler and Vesterlund. 2015. The External Validity of Experiments: The Misleading Emphasis on Quantitative Effects. In Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, eds.

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Author: Guillaume R. Fréchette

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190202163

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 416

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The Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume R. Fréchette and Andrew Schotter, aims to confront and debate the issues faced by the growing field of experimental economics. For example, as experimental work attempts to test theory, it raises questions about the proper relationship between theory and experiments. As experimental results are used to inform policy, the utility of these results outside the lab is questioned, and finally, as experimental economics tries to integrate ideas from other disciplines like psychology and neuroscience, the question of their proper place in the discipline of economics becomes less clear. This book contains papers written by some of the most accomplished scholars working at the intersection of experimental, behavioral, and theoretical economics talking about methodology. It is divided into four sections, each of which features a set of papers and a set of comments on those papers. The intention of the volume is to offer a place where ideas about methodology could be discussed and even argued. Some of the papers are contentious---a healthy sign of a dynamic discipline---while others lay out a vision for how the authors think experimental economics should be pursued. This exciting and illuminating collection of papers brings light to a topic at the core of experimental economics. Researchers from a broad range of fields will benefit from the exploration of these important questions.

This volume is the first comprehensive, cohesive, and accessible reference source to the philosophy of economics, presenting important new scholarship by top scholars.

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Author: Harold Kincaid

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

ISBN: 9780195189254

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 670

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This volume is the first comprehensive, cohesive, and accessible reference source to the philosophy of economics, presenting important new scholarship by top scholars.

basis the doctrine might retain in economics should these new approaches or elements from them become part of core economics. Of course this does not imply that ... In The Handbook of Economic Methodology, edited by J. Davis, W. Hands, ...

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Author: George F. DeMartino

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190269975

Category: Philosophy

Page: 688

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For over a century the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proven to be disinterested in ethics. Embracing emotivism, they often treat ethics a matter of mere preference. Moreover, economists tend to be hostile to professional economic ethics, which they incorrectly equate with a code of conduct that would be at best ineffectual and at worst disruptive to good economic practice. But good ethical reasoning is not reducible to mere tastes, and professional ethics is not reducible to a code. Instead, professional economic ethics refers to a new field of investigation-a tradition of sustained and lively inquiry into the irrepressible ethical entailments of academic and applied economic practice. The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics explores a wide range of questions related to the nature of ethical economic practice and the content of professional economic ethics. It explores current thinking that has emerged in these areas while widening substantially the terrain of economic ethics. There has never been a volume that poses so directly and intensively the question of the need for and content of professional ethics for economics. The Handbook incorporates the work of leading scholars and practitioners, including academic economists from various theoretical traditions; applied economists, beyond academia, whose work has direct and immense social impact; and philosophers, professional ethicists, and others whose work has addressed the nature of "professionalism" and its implications for ethical practice.