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Including a Symposium on the Work of Mary Morgan : Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise.

Volume 36B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium reflecting on the significance of Mary Morgan's contributions to the history and philosophy of economics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fiorito, Luca
Otros Autores: Scheall, Scott, Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Colección:Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Editorial Board; Contents; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Volume Introduction; Part I Including a Symposium on Mary Morgan: Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise; Introduction to the Symposium "Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise"; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Health Economic Modeling: Fact or Fiction? Useful to Policymakers in Spite of Untruths; Abstract; Introduction; Health Economics and Modeling; Cost-effectiveness Models; Decision-analytic Models as Decision Guides; Models Encounter Obstacles; Market Failure; Narrow Focus.
  • Model RealismUse of Ceteris Paribus in Health Economic Models; Conclusions; Notes; References; Calculators and Quacks: Feeling the Economy's Pulse in Times of Crisis; Abstract; "We Have to Wait and See"; Business Barometers and the CPB Modeling Tradition; When Models Fail; Monitoring the Business Cycle; Drive the Quacks Out or Keep Them In?; All that Jizz; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Rationalization and the "Engineer-Economists" in the Netherlands, 1920-1940; Abstract; Introduction; Rationalization of Unemployment in the Netherlands; Theo van der Waerden's Analysis of Rationalization.
  • The 1930s: Formalization and Politicization of the Rationalization DebateThe Formalization of the Economic Policy Debate; The Politicization of the Rationalization Unemployment Debate; Tension Barometers and Models; Conclusions; Notes; References; Shaping Space through Diagrams: The Case of the History of Location Theory; Abstract; Forms and Reasoning; Laws and Locations; Idealization; Isolated State as Ideal State; Level of Idealization of Industrial Triangles; Central Place Theory; Reasoning and Realization; Mechanical Reasoning; Playing with the Map; Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments.
  • NotesReferences; "Influence" in Historical Explanation: Mary Morgan's Traveling Facts and the Context of Influence; Abstract; Lessons Learned; The Case against Influence, Getting Closer to Practice; The Case for Influence, Examining Interpersonal Relationships; A Case Study: The Influence of Mary Morgan; The Context of Influence; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Pleas for Fieldwork: Polly Hill on Observation and Induction, 1966-1982; Abstract; Introduction: Seeking Parts, Looking for Wholes1; "A Plea for Indigenous Economics" (1966): Seeking Wholes, Looking for Parts.
  • "A Plea for Inductive Methods" (1982): Observing Wholes, Classifying ModesConclusions; Acknowledgments; Notes; Audiovisual material; Archival collections; Published sources; Imagining Economic Space in Colonial India; Abstract; Introduction; 1. Space, Time, and Measurement; 2. Economic Spaces as Calculable Spaces; 3. Visualizing India's Political Economy; Conclusion; Notes; References; Rethinking Reproducibility as a Criterion for Research Quality; Abstract; Introduction: The Reproducibility Crisis; What Is Reproducibility?; Reproducibility in Scientific Practice.