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Zitierlink URN
https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104675-16

The Usefulness of Truth : An Enquiry Concerning Economic Modelling

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2009-10-30
Autoren
Deichsel, Simon  
Betreuer
Borchers, Dagmar  
Gutachter
Pyka, Andreas  
Zusammenfassung
This thesis attempts to justify a normative role for methodology by sketching a pragmatic way out of the dichotomy between two major strands in economic methodology: empiricism and postmodernism. I discuss several methodological approaches and assess their aptness for theory appraisal in economics. I begin with the most common views on methodology (i.e. empiricism and postmodernism) and argue why they are each ill-suited for giving methodological prescriptions to economics. Then, I consider positions that avoid the errors of empiricism and postmodernism. I specifically examine why the two major strands of methodological criticism fail to give helpful methodological advice to economists and sketch out a pragmatic approach that can do this.
Schlagwörter
Philosophy of Science

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Philosophy of Economics

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Methodology

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Empiricism

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Pragmatism

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Postmodernism

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Anything goes

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Relativism

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Normativity
Institution
Universität Bremen  
Fachbereich
Fachbereich 09: Kulturwissenschaften (FB 09)  
Dokumenttyp
Dissertation
Zweitveröffentlichung
Nein
Sprache
Englisch
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00104675-1.pdf

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