The Methodology Of Economic Model Building Routledge Revivals

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317680960
Total Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) written by Lawrence A. Boland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability in economics. In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences. He concludes that model building in economics reflects more the methodological prescriptions of the economist Paul Samuelson than Popper’s ‘falsificationism’. This title will prove invaluable to both students and researchers, and represents a substantial contribution to debates about the scientific status of economics.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317680952
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) written by Lawrence A. Boland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability in economics. In The Methodology of Economic Model Building, first published in 1989, Lawrence Boland presents the results of a research project that spanned more than twenty years. He examines how economists have applied the philosophy of Karl Popper, relating methodological debates about falsifiability to wider discussions about the truth status of models in natural and social sciences. He concludes that model building in economics reflects more the methodological prescriptions of the economist Paul Samuelson than Popper’s ‘falsificationism’. This title will prove invaluable to both students and researchers, and represents a substantial contribution to debates about the scientific status of economics.

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317680901
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) written by Lawrence A. Boland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this title argues that the successful development of a new microeconomics requires a deeper understanding of methodological individualism and its role in stability analysis. Lawrence Boland expounds a critique of neoclassical models, which, he contends, often fail to include an explicit stability analysis. He demonstrates that much of the sophisticated theoretical literature over the past thirty years can be understood as ad hoc attempts to overcome the deficiencies of such models in the absence of cogent stability analyses. In conclusion, he explains the need to update the theory taught at universities, and to develop a truly individualist version of microeconomics that is consistent with the methodological principles of major neoclassical models. An important contribution to economic methodology, this work is a highly valuable resource for all students and teachers of economics at the undergraduate level.

Author : Lawrence Arthur Boland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Methodology of Economic Model Building written by Lawrence Arthur Boland and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gómez Vilchez, Jonatan J.
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3731509148
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book The Impact of Electric Cars on Oil Demand and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Key Markets written by Gómez Vilchez, Jonatan J. and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Harbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136646175
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals) written by Colin Harbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an examination of business decision-taking to the analysis of supply and demand in goods and factor markets. The second half of the book deals with the major macroeconomic aggregates, national income, employment and the price level – giving both Keynesian and Monetarist approaches a fair hearing. The book ends with two chapters on economic policy and concludes with a chapter on methods of building and testing economic models – a subject which is both interesting and useful by the time students have grasped the essence of economic analysis. Throughout, the author makes economics relevant and at the same time presents basic theoretical techniques of analysis and controversies in a manner which makes translation to one of the major standard theory texts as smooth as possible.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415096375
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Economic Methodology written by Roger Backhouse and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity with contributions from the leading methodologists.

Author : The Late Frederic S. Lee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782548467
Total Pages : 629 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics written by The Late Frederic S. Lee and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the important methodological critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant research method taught in heterodox programmes remains econometrics. This compelling Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of alternative research methods, invaluable for analysing the data prominent in heterodox studies. Providing a solid basis for a mixed methods approach to economic investigations, the expertly crafted contributions are split into three distinct sections: philosophical foundation and research strategy, research methods and data collection, and applications. Introductions to a host of invaluable methods such as survey, historical, ethnographic, experimental and mixed approaches, together with factor, cluster, complex and social network analytics, are complemented by descriptions of applications in practice. Practical and expansive, this Handbook is highly pertinent for students and scholars of economics, particularly those dedicated to heterodox approaches, as it provides a solid reference for mixed methods not available in mainstream economics research methods courses.

Author : F. Neal (author)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Economic model building written by F. Neal (author) and published by . This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence A. Boland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107032941
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Building in Economics written by Lawrence A. Boland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern about the role and the limits of modeling has heightened after repeated questions were raised regarding the dependability and suitability of the models that were used in the run-up to the 2008 financial crash. In this book, Lawrence Boland provides an overview of the practices of and the problems faced by model builders to explain the nature of models, the modeling process, and the possibility for and nature of their testing. In a reflective manner, the author raises serious questions about the assumptions and judgments that model builders make in constructing models. In making his case, he examines the traditional microeconomics-macroeconomics separation with regard to how theoretical models are built and used and how they interact, paying particular attention to the use of equilibrium concepts in macroeconomic models and game theory and to the challenges involved in building empirical models, testing models, and using models to test theoretical explanations.