Economics Without Laws
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Economics Without Laws

Towards a New Philosophy of Economics

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Economics Without Laws

Towards a New Philosophy of Economics

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This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead, chapters in the book follow the method of contemporary philosophy of science: rather than formulating suggestions for practicing scientists of how they should do research, the text describes and interprets the very practice of scientific research. This approach demonstrates how economists can explain economic phenomena not by subsuming them under general laws, but rather by building models of these phenomena, by referring to causes, or even by investigating what is in the nature of given factors, events, or circumstances to produce.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319548616
Topic
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Subtopic
Wirtschaftstheorie

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. 1: Introduction
  5. 2: On the Nature of Economic Laws: From Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
  6. 3: The Demise of Laws in Economics
  7. 4: Causal Explanations in Economics
  8. 5: Between Isolations and Constructions: Economic Models as Believable Worlds
  9. 6: To What Extent Are Economic Explanations Distinctively Mathematical?
  10. 7: Conclusions
  11. References
  12. Index