Economic methodology : a historical introduction / Harro Maas ; translated by Liz Waters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maas, Harro (Author)
Other Authors: Waters, Liz (Translator)
Other title:Spelregels van economen. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Economics as social theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Economics: inductive or deductive science?
  • Economics and statistics
  • Business-cycle research: the rise of modelling
  • John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: the dramatist and the model-builder
  • Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research: structural models and "as if" methodology
  • Modelling between fact and fiction: thought experiments in economics
  • Experimentation in economics
  • Simulation with models
  • Economics as science: the rules of the game.