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- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The New Philosophy of Economics
- Laws, Causation, and Economic Methodology
- If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It?
- Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models
- Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge
- Rationality and Indeterminacy
- Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences
- Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics
- Integrating the Dynamics of Multiscale Economic Agency
- Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation
- Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions
- Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics: The Limited Usefulness of Tinbergen's Four‐Question Classification
- Computational Economics
- Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics
- Causality, Invariance, and Policy
- The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics
- Explaining Growth
- Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries
- What Is Welfare and How Can We Measure It?
- Interpersonal Comparison of Utility
- Subjective Measures of Well‐Being: Philosophical Perspectives
- Facts and Values in Modern Economics
- Author Index
- Subject Index
(p. vii) Acknowledgments
(p. vii) Acknowledgments
Harold Kincaid would like to dedicate this volume to Scott Gordon, Geoffrey Hellman, and Frank Thompson, the mentors who started him on this intellectual project.
Don Ross adds dedication to three people who did the most to allow him to expand his professional horizons in a new adopted homeland, Brian Kantor, Peter Collins, and Kerry Capstick‐Dale. (p. viii)
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The New Philosophy of Economics
- Laws, Causation, and Economic Methodology
- If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It?
- Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models
- Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge
- Rationality and Indeterminacy
- Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences
- Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics
- Integrating the Dynamics of Multiscale Economic Agency
- Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation
- Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions
- Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics: The Limited Usefulness of Tinbergen's Four‐Question Classification
- Computational Economics
- Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics
- Causality, Invariance, and Policy
- The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics
- Explaining Growth
- Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries
- What Is Welfare and How Can We Measure It?
- Interpersonal Comparison of Utility
- Subjective Measures of Well‐Being: Philosophical Perspectives
- Facts and Values in Modern Economics
- Author Index
- Subject Index
