Truth versus precision in economics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayer, Thomas, 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar, 1993.
Series:Advances in economic methodology
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Economists as Economic Agents: Towards a Positive Theory of Methodology
  • 3. Two Types of Mainstream Economics
  • 4. Honour them Both
  • 5. Truth versus Precision
  • 6. Other Types of Damage
  • 7. New Classical Theory - General Characteristics
  • 8. New Classical Theory - Specific Hypotheses
  • 9. Model or Die
  • 10. Empirical Testing: Driving a Mercedes down a Cow-track
  • 11. Good Dentists or Bad Physicists?