Routledge Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Methodology (Economics as Social Theory)

Product Description 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 Review "Readers with a strong interest in philosophical and methodological issues will have much to learn from this book. It provides a very careful description and evaluation of the rhetoric and realism programs in economic methodology. Furthermore, it is one of the few discussions of economic methodology that recognizes that contemporary analytical philosophy abounds with many different responses to the breakdown of positivist philosophy of science." -"Journal of Economic Literature