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245 0 0 _aFact and fiction in economics :
_bmodels, realism and social construction /
_cedited by Uskali Maki.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2002.
300 _axvi, 384 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aProceedings of a conference held at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 14-15, 1997.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _gI. Introduction: --
_tDismal queen of the social sciences /
_rUskali Maki --
_gII. Setting the scene: --
_tUgly currents in modern economics /
_rMark Blaug --
_tModern economics and its critics /
_rPartha Dasgupta --
_tSome nonreasons for nonrealism about economics /
_rUskali Maki --
_gIII. Economic models and economic reality: --
_tCredible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics /
_rRobert Sugden --
_tLimits of causal order, from economics to physics /
_rNancy Cartwright --
_tEconometrics and reality /
_rKevin D. Hoover --
_tModels, stories, and the economic world /
_rMary S. Morgan -- Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods /
_rRoger E. Backhouse --
_tTruthlikeness and economic theories /
_rIlkka Niiniluoto --
_gIV. The constitution of economic reality: --
_tRational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" /
_rPhilip Pettit --
_tReality of common cultures /
_rShaun P. Hargreaves Heap --
_tCollective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality /
_rRaimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer --
_tHayek and cultural evolution /
_rBruce Caldwell --
_tPutting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" /
_rNeil De Marchi --
_gV. The institutions of economics: --
_tYou shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric /
_rDeirdre N. McCloskey --
_tMore things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies /
_rD. Wade Hands --
_tEconomists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? /
_rJesus P. Zamora Bonilla
650 0 _aEconomics
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xMethodology.
700 1 _aMaki, Uskali.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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