The Handbook of Economic Methodology

by John B. Davis (Editor), D. W. Hands (Editor), Uskali M ki (Editor), Uskali Maki (Editor), D. Wade Hands (Editor)

Overview

The Handbook of Economic Methodology is a major multidisciplinary reference work on the developing field of economic methodology. It consists of more than a hundred specially commissioned essays by leading scholars from around the world. This definitive volume provides detailed and authoritative coverage of crucial topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduces a variety of emerging themes which economic methodologists have begun to explore.

This comprehensive Handbook includes a variety of substantive entries in which experts in the field summarise past achievements in economic methodology and indicate the direction of future research. They provide biographical entries to introduce important economists, methodologists and philosophers. The volume also focuses on economic issues to which economic methodology is central and wider intellectual themes that have impinged on economic methodology, from general movements in intellectual history to broad philosophical themes. Orthodox and heterodox approaches to economics and epistemological, ontological, logical and normative dimensions of economic methodology are discussed and evaluated.

This magnificent reference work presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the evolution of economic methodology as well as prospects for its future development. The Handbook of Economic Methodology will be indispensable to those with an interest in economic methodology, the philosophy of economics and the history of economic thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852787950
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/1998
Series:	Elgar Original Reference Series
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by John B. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, D. Wade Hands, Professor of Economics, University of Puget Sound, US and Uskali Mäki, Academy Professor, Academy of Finland, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland

Editorial Reviews

'The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together an impressive array of scholars. There are 93 contributors to the volume in a list that includes the authoritative names in economic methodology one would expect to be present.'

From the Publisher

A multidisciplinary reference in which over 100 commissioned essays provide details of topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduce a variety of emerging themes that economic methodologists have begun to explore. The encyclopedia- type articles discuss such topics as aggregation, evolutionary economics, Otto Neurath, survey methods, Thorstein Veblen, selectionist arguments, the marginalist controversy, game theory, economic sociology, and causality. Each includes an extensive bibliography. Practicing economists and students of the philosophy or history of economics might find useful information and an entry into deeper investigation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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