Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics /

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics. In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. The behaviori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Temas:
Economics > Philosophy.
New institutionalism (Social sciences).
Philosophical behaviorism.
Positivism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
economics, history, communication, positivism, behaviorism, institutions, institutionalism, neoinstitutionalism, behavior, liberated human, humanomics, market-tested innovation, philosophy, ethics, morality, morals, sciences, philosophers, measurements, imperfections, new approach, different ideas, changed focus, human-made.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Argument in Brief
  • Part I. Economics Is in Scientific Trouble
  • Chapter one. An Antique, Unethical, and Badly Measured Behaviorism Doesn't Yield Good Economic Science or Good Politics
  • Chapter two. Economics Needs to Get Serious about Measuring the Economy
  • Chapter three. The Number of Unmeasured "Imperfections" Is Embarrassingly Long
  • Chapter four. Historical Economics Can Measure Them, Showing Them to Be Small
  • Chapter five. The Worst of Orthodox Positivism Lacks Ethics and Measurement
  • Part II Neoinstitutionalism Shares in the Troubles
  • Chapter six. Even the Best of Neoinstitutionalism Lacks Measurement
  • Chapter seven. And "Culture," or Mistaken History, Will Not Repair It
  • Chapter eight. That Is, Neoinstitutionalism, Like the Rest of Behavioral Positivism, Fails as History and as Economics
  • Chapter nine. As It Fails in Logic and in Philosophy
  • Chapter ten. Neoinstitutionalism, in Short, Is Not a Scientific Success
  • Part III Humanomics Can Save the Science
  • Chapter eleven. But It's Been Hard for Positivists to Understand Humanomics
  • Chapter twelve. Yet We Can Get a Humanomics
  • Chapter thirteen. And Although We Can't Save Private Max U
  • Chapter fourteen. We Can Save an Ethical Humanomics
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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