Multidisciplinary economics : a methodological account / Piet Keizer
- Author
- Keizer, P. (Pieter Klaas)
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.The Character of Science -- 2.1.Practical Problems and Primitive Solutions -- 2.2.Western Science as a Product of Modernity -- 2.3.Modern Philosophy of Science -- 2.4.Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science -- 2.5.Three Philosophical Questions -- 2.6.Modernity and Postmodernity -- 2.7.Causality and Reason -- 2.8.The Structure of Knowledge -- 2.9.Strategies of Specialization -- 2.10.The Organization of Human Science -- 2.11.Methodological Pluralism -- 3.Genesis and Development of Economics and Sociology -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Modern Moral Philosophy as the Foundation of Social Science -- 3.3.The Emergence of Classical Political Economy -- 3.4.From Classical Political Economy to Neoclassical Economics -- 3.5.The Institutionalist Critique of Neoclassical Economics -- 3.6.From Classical Political Economy to Classical Sociology -- 3.7.Economics in the Interbellum: The Macro Revolution of Keynes -- 3.8.Post-War Economic Growth in Western Europe -- Introduction -- The Ontological Difference between Orthodox and Heterodox Economics -- Ecology -- 4.Orthodox Microeconomics -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.The Economic World -- 4.3.Orthodox Microeconomic Analysis -- 4.4.New Institutional Economics -- 4.5.Public Choice -- 5.Orthodox Macroeconomics -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Business Cycles and Inflation -- 5.3.Orthodox Growth Theory -- 5.4.Neoclassical Empirical Research -- 5.5.Economic Growth, Happiness, and the Good Life -- 5.6.Academic Education of Economics -- 5.7.Epilogue: The Crisis as a Turning Point? -- 6.Evolution and Entrepreneurship, an Evolutionary and an Austrian View -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Evolutionary Economics -- 6.3.Austrian Economics -- 7.Radical Economics -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.The Economics of Marx -- 7.3.Current Radical Economics -- 7.4.A Radical View of the Financial Crisis 2008 -- 7.5.Conclusion -- 8.Post-Keynesian Economics -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.The Methodology of Keynes -- 8.3.The Economic Analysis of Keynes -- 8.4.Neoclassical Reactions to Keynes' Analysis -- 8.5.Leijonhufvud's Idea of the Corridors -- 8.6.New Keynesian Economics -- 8.7.Post-Keynesian Economics -- 8.8.Conclusion -- 9.Social Economics -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.The Methodology of Social Economics -- 9.3.Institutions -- 9.4.Socio-Economics -- 9.5.The Philosophical Roots of Social Economics -- 9.6.Conclusion -- 9.7.Intermezzo -- 10.Psychology for Economists -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.The Origin of Psychology -- 10.3.Perspectives in Psychology -- 10.4.Behavioural Economics -- 10.5.The Social Factor -- 10.6.The Psychic World -- Appendix Have Germans Experienced a Monetary Trauma? -- Introduction -- 11.Macro- and Micro-Approaches in Sociology -- 11.1.Macro-Sociology: Functionalism versus the Conflict Approach -- 11.2.Micro-Sociological Approaches -- 11.3.The Relationship between Micro- and Macro-Analysis -- Appendix 1 Practical Problems and the Framing of their Situation -- Appendix 2 A Social Scientific Discourse -- 12.The Historical Approach in Sociology -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Two Interpretations of the History of Mankind -- 12.3.Modernity in Sociology -- 12.4.From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernity -- 12.5.Conclusions -- 13.Multidisciplinary Sociology and the Social World -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Psychological Sociology -- 13.3.Economic Sociology -- 13.4.Methodological Assessment -- 13.5.The Social World -- Introduction -- Technology and Institution -- Historicity -- Ecology -- Openness of Systems -- Macro-Analysis -- 14.The Integration of the Three Worlds -- 14.1.The Economic World -- 14.2.The Social World -- 14.3.The Psychic World -- 14.4.The Psychic-Economic World -- 14.5.The Social-Economic World -- 14.6.The Psychic-Social World -- 14.7.The Psychic-Economic-Social World -- 15.Applications of the MDE World Approach -- 15.1.Discrimination as an Economic and Social Cost -- 15.2.A Cost-Benefit Analysis of (In)Equality -- 15.3.Four More or Less Persistent Systems -- 15.4.Meaning of Concepts in the MDE World -- 16.Conclusions -- A.The Logical World -- B.Kant For Economists -- C.Jung For Economists -- D.Adam Smith As A Founding Father Of Multidisciplinary Economics.
- Summary
- This title discusses a series of orthodox and heterodox economic, sociological, and psychological approaches and analyses. It explains how orthodox economics has developed a so-called economic world, and constructs a methodologically comparable sociological and psychological world.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191797651 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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