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Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

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Warren J. Samuels ⁰

Warren J. Samuels
1. Michigan State University, USA
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-x

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
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  Pages 1-8
Economics as Discourse
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 9-9
  
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2. ‘Truth’ and ‘Discourse’ in the Social Construction of Economic Reality: An Essay on the Relation of Knowledge to Socioeconomic Policy
  
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  Pages 11-28
3. The Idea of the Corporation as a Person: On the Normative Significance of Judicial Language
  
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  Pages 29-48
4. Machlup on Knowledge: Science, Subjectivism and the Social Nature of Knowledge
  
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  Pages 49-61
5. A Critique of the Discursive Systems and Foundation Concepts of Distribution Analysis
  
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  Pages 62-82
Methodology, Policy, and the Social Construction of Reality
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 83-83
  
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2. An Essay on the Nature and Significance of the Normative Nature of Economics
  
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  Pages 85-91
3. Determinate Solutions and Valuational Processes: Overcoming the Foreclosure of Process
  
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  Pages 92-107
4. The Methodology of Economics and the Case for Policy Diffidence and Restraint
  
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  Pages 108-129
5. Economics as a Science and its Relation to Policy: The Example of Free Trade
  
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  Pages 130-153
6. The Knight-Ayres Correspondence: The Grounds of Knowledge and Social Action
  
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  Pages 154-200
7. On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence
  
  James M. Buchanan
  
  Pages 201-230
Values and Ideology in Economics
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 231-231
  
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2. Ideology in Economics
  
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  Pages 233-248
3. The Historical Treatment of the Problem of Value Judgements: An Interpretation
  
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  Pages 249-260
4. You Cannot Derive ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’
  
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  Pages 261-265
5. A Necessary Normative Context of Positive Economics?
  
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  Pages 266-271
Reasoning in Economics
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 273-273
  
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About this book

Contains a collection of articles on economics as a system of discourse and on certain epistemological problems of economics. The treatment of both topics centres on the role of often implicit assumptions as to whose interests count in reaching conclusions especially as to policy.

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Michigan State University, USA

Warren J. Samuels

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics
Authors: Warren J. Samuels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Warren J. Samuels 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-12373-5Published: 01 January 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-12371-1Published: 18 June 1992
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 332
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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