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This stimulating and authoritative book features original essays from leading scholars in the discipline - each of which addresses the question: how should economists do economics? What emerges is a diverse, constructive commentary on how economics is done and how it should be done. Leading thinkers...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
AMS Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | AMS studies in library and information science ;
no. 4. |
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| Summary: | This stimulating and authoritative book features original essays from leading scholars in the discipline - each of which addresses the question: how should economists do economics? What emerges is a diverse, constructive commentary on how economics is done and how it should be done. Leading thinkers from a wide variety of perspectives and fields address issues such as the scope of economics, the corpus of theory and its stature, the process of theory construction, the place of mathematical formalism, the role of quantitative analysis, the place of institutions in economic analysis, and, inter alia, technical methods of research. Foundations of Research in Economics: How do Economists do Economics? brings together some of the leading figures from many different schools of thought. This volume ranges across all aspects of professional discourse, ensuring that it will be widely read by economists active in many different areas of research while being of particular interest to economic theorists, methodologists and historians of economics. |
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| Physical Description: | 125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0404640044 9780404640040 |