The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook (Handbooks in Economic Methodologies) - Hardcover

Caplin, Andrew; Schotter, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195328310 ISBN 13: 9780195328318

Publisher: OUP USA, 2008

Synopsis

The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. This fact has left economists ill at ease, and has created a backlash against new methods. The series will debate these critical issues, allowing proponents of a particular research method to present proposals in a safe yet critical context, with alternatives being clarified. This first volume, written by some of the most prominent researchers in the discipline, reflects the challenges that are opened by new research opportunities. The goal of the current volume and the series it presages, is to formally open a dialog on methodology. The editors' conviction is that such a debate will rebound to the benefit of social science in general, and economics in particular. The issues under discussion strike to the very heart of the social scientific enterprise. This work is of tremendous importance to all who are interested in the contributions that academic research can make not only to our scientific understanding, but also to matters of policy. In particular, economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both on how productive these expansions have been in the past, and how best to make progress in the future.

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About the Author

Andrew Caplin is a professor of economics at New York University and the co-director of NYU's Center for Experimental Social Science. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Health and Retirement Survey, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. In addition to undertaking fundamental research in economic theory and in economics and psychology, he has written extensively on defects in the U.S. residential real estate finance market. Andrew Schotter is a professor of economics at New York University and the Director of NYU's Center for Experimental Social Science. He is the author of numerous books and articles including The Economic Theory of Social Institutions, Free Market Economics: A Critical Appraisal, and Microeconomics: A Modern Approach. His main area of research is in economic theory, game theory, and especially Experimental Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195328310
• ISBN 13: 9780195328318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416