Realist philosophy of economics
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Economic theory relies heavily on the idea of rational action, but how are we to understand the empirical content of rational choice when we can only observe the outcome, not what goes into making the choice? With contributions from Alan...
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Bristol
Bristol University Press
2023, 2023
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Isabella MittermaierExtended Preface: A Realistic Attitude to the Economy
- Alan KirmanPrologue: Mittermaier's Conceptual Framework
- Rod O'Donnell1. Institutions and the Empirical Content of Economics2. Ex Post and Ex Ante Facts3. Structure and Equilibrium 4. Rational Action5. Variant Conceptions of Preferences6. The Genetic Understanding and Institutions