How economics should be done essays on the art and craft of economics
David Colander has been writing about economic methodology for over 30 years. His pragmatic approach sees applied policy methodology as rooted in what economists actually do, not in what methodologists say they should do. It sees applied policy methodology as constantly evolving as analytic and comp...
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Northampton, MA
Edward Elgar Publishing
2018, 2018
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Introduction
- Part I Methodological framework and methodology for economic policy as art 1. Why economists aren't as important as garbagemen
- 2. Vision, judgment, and disagreement among economists
- 3. The lost art of economics
- 4. The systemic failure of economic methodologists
- 5. The death of neoclassical economics
- Part II Methodology for microeconomics
- 6. Applied policy, welfare economics and mill's half-truths
- 7. A failure to communicate: the fact-value divide and the Putnam-Dasgupta debate
- 8. Framing the economic policy debate
- 9. Complexity economics and workaday economic policy
- Part III Methodology for macroeconomics
- 10. The macrofoundations of micro
- 11. Post Walrasian Macro policy and the economics of muddling through
- 12. How economists got it wrong: a nuanced account
- 13. Economists, incentives, judgment, and the European CVAR approach to macroeconometrics
- 14. Beyond DSGE models: toward an empirically based macroeconomics
- Part IV Pragmatic methods for doing economics as a profession
- 15. How economists failed society
- 16. Moving beyond the rhetoric of pluralism: suggestions for an "inside-the-mainstream" heterodoxy
- 17. Creating humble economists: a code of ethics for economists
- Part V An annotated bibliography of colander's methodological work
- 1. Annotated bibliography
- 2. List of book reviews
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references and index