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On the Reliability of Economic Models

Essays in the Philosophy of Economics

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Little

    1. Colgate University, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 42)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Current Issues in the Philosophy of Economics

    • Daniel Little
    Pages 1-8

  3. Causation and Explanation in Econometrics

    • James Woodward
    Pages 9-61

  4. Causal Structures in Econometrics

    • Nancy Cartwright
    Pages 63-89

  5. The Epistemic Foundations of Nash Equilibrium

    • Cristina Bicchieri
    Pages 91-146

  6. Observing the Unobservable

    • David Schmidtz
    Pages 147-181

  7. Parmenides and the Cliometricians

    • Margaret Schabas
    Pages 183-209

  8. Optimality Arguments and the Theory of the Firm

    • Harold Kincaid
    Pages 211-242

  9. Economic Models in Development Economics

    • Daniel Little
    Pages 243-273

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 281-283
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About this book

This volume represents a contribution to the philosophy of economics with a distinctive point of view -- the contributors have selected particular areas of economics and have probed these areas for the philosophical and methodological issues that they raise. The primary essays are written by philosophers concentrating on philosophical issues that arise at the level of the everyday theoretical practice of working economists. Commentary essays are provided by working economists responding to the philosophical arguments from the standpoint of their own disciplines. The volume thus represents something of an `experiment' in the philosophy of science, striving as it does to explore methodological issues across two research communities. The purpose of the volume is very specific: to stimulate a discussion of the epistemology and methodology of economics that works at the level of detail of existing `best practice' in economics today. The contributors have designed their contributions to stimulate productive conversation between philosophers and economists on topics in the methodology of economics.

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  • Colgate University, USA

    Daniel Little

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