Idealization VI : : Idealization in Economics / / Bert Hamminga and Neil B. De Marchi.

• Superior document: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series ; Volume 38
• VerfasserIn: Hamminga, Bert, 1951-; De Marchi, Neil,
• TeilnehmendeR: De Marchi, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi B.V.,, [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Idealization and the Defence of Economics: Notes Toward a History -- Part I: General Observations on Idealization in Economics -- Six Queries about Idealization in an Empirical Context -- Three Generalization Processes for Economic Models -- The Theory of Reduction in Econometrics -- Economic Models and Their Applications -- Idealization and Empirical Adequacy in Economic Theory -- On Correspondence between Economic Theories -- Isolation, Idealization and Truth in Economics -- Part II: Case Studies of Idealization in Economics -- Mill and Menger: Ideal Elements and Stable Tendencies -- Exchange Versus Influence: A Case of Idealization -- Truth Approximation by Concretization in Capital Structure Theory -- Paul Samuelson as Dr. Frankenstein: When an Idealization Runs Amuck -- What if an Idealization is Problematic? The Case of the Homogeneity Condition in Consumer Demand -- Nowak on Explanation and Idealization in Marx's 'Capital' -- Idealization and Transformation -- Idealizations and Theory Development in Economics. Some History and Logic of the Logic Discovery -- Discussions -- The Idealizational Methodology and Economics. Replies to Diederich, Hoover, Janssen, Jorland and Mäki -- List or Authors or this Volume -- POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES -- A QUARTER CENTURY OF VALUE INQUIRY -- postmodern icons explained -- Die experimentelle Analyse des Bewußtseins bei Vittorio Benussi -- PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN EASTERN EUROPE -- Die Dimension des Interkulturellen Philosophic in Afrika - afrikanische Philosophic Zweiter Teil: Supplemente und Verallgemeinerungsschritte -- HOLISM: A CONSUMER UPDATE -- The Logic of Hope Extensions of Kant's View of Religion -- A Coherence Theory in Ethics -- The Meaning of Life.

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