ABSTRACT

Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA

chapter |7 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|28 pages

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS

Methodological perspectives

chapter 2|25 pages

RHETORIC

The abandonment of methodology?

chapter 3|22 pages

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Methodology revisited

chapter 4|25 pages

SCIENTIFIC REALISM

Methodology reinstated

chapter 5|22 pages

THE PLAUSIBILITY OF ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS

Realist perspectives

chapter 6|26 pages

CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM

The challenge to scientific realism

chapter 7|28 pages

TOWARDS A RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY

The emergence of causal holism

chapter 8|21 pages

FROM FRIEDMAN TO KALDOR

A causal holist critique of the methodology of neoclassical economics

chapter 9|10 pages

CAUSAL HOLISM

Beyond rhetoric and realism