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Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals).

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Sullivan, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge revivals.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction; PART 1: PHILOSOPHICAL PROLEGOMENA; Introduction to Part 1; 1 A Critical Philosophical Methodology of Science; 2 The Challenge of the Anti-philosophies; 3 Science and the Quest for Truth; 4 The Methodological Alternatives; PART 2: ECONOMIC SCIENCE: A METHODOLOGICAL CASE STUDY; Introduction to Part 2; 5 The Economic Theory of Deliberate Choice; 6 Teleological Explanation in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics; 7 Rationality Postulates in Economic Theory8 Methodological Precepts and Practice in Economics; 9 What Economists Have Said and What They Have Done; 10 The Austrian Exception; 11 The Twofold Methodological Gap; PART 3: THE PHILOSOPHICAL DEDUCTION; Introduction to Part 3; 12 The Existentialist Deduction of a Subjectivist Methodology; 13 The Existentialist Refutation of an Objectivist Methodology; 14 The Central Principles of a Subjectivist Methodology: Alfred Schutz; 15 A Resolution of Some Notorious Sticking Points; 16 A Conclusion and Some Open Questions.