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Is there progress in economics? : knowledge, truth and the history of economic thought / edited by Stephan Boehm ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham, U.K ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar, 2002Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 410 p) : illISBN:
  • 9781843765622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 1840646837 | 9781840646832 (hardback) | Available in another form: 1840646837 | Elektronische Reproduktion von: Is there progress in economics?. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2002. XXII, 410 S.DDC classification:
  • 330/.09 21
RVK: RVK: CC 7750 | QE 000LOC classification:
  • HB75
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781843765622Online resources: Summary: This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspectiveSummary: pt. 1. Progress : a contested concept? -- pt. 2. Progress in the history of ideas : alternative approaches -- pt. 3. Roundtable : is there progress in economics? -- pt. 4. Normative economics -- pt. 5. Monetary economics -- pt. 6. Trade and location -- pt. 7. Currents of thought -- pt. 8. Reflections on the classical long-period methodPPN: PPN: 1023441098Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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