The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics

Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki.Don Ross is Professor in the School of Sociology and Philosophy at University College Cork; Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town; and Program Director for Methodology in the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. The New Philosophy of Economics, Don Ross and Harold Kincaid Section 1: Received Views in Philosophy of Economics 2. Laws, Causation and Economic Methodology, Daniel Hausman3. If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It?, Alex Rosenberg4. Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models, Uskali Mäki5. Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge, Philip Mirowski Section 2: Microeconomics 6. Rationality and Indeterminacy, Cristina Bicchieri7. Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences, Jim Woodward8. Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics, John B. Davis9. Integrating the Dynamics of Multi-scale Economic Agency, Don Ross10. Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation, Francesco Guala11. Progress in Economics--Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions, Anna Alexandrova and Robert Northcot12. Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics, Jack Vromen Section 3: Modeling, Macroeconomics And Development 13. Computational Economics, Paul Humphreys14. Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics, Kevin D. Hoover15. Causality, Invariance, and Policy, Nancy Cartwright16. The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics, Stan du Plessis17. Explained Growth, Harold Kincaid18. Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries, Gary Fields19. What is Welfare and How Can We Measure it?, Keith Dowding20. Interpersonal Comparison of Utility, Ken Binmore21. Subjective Measures of Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives, Erik Angner22. Facts and Values in Modern Economics, Partha Dasgupta

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