The usefulness of truth: an enquiriy concerning economic modelling
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 11
2. EMPIRICISM AND FALSIFICATIONISM 23
2.1. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO FALSIFICATIONISM 23
2.2. CRITICISING ECONOMICS FOR ITS LACK OF EMPIRICAL CONTENT 27 2.2.1.
ECONOMICS MUST TAKE FALSIFICATION MORE SERIOUSLY 27 2.2.2. EMPIRICAL
FINDINGS MUST BE INTEGRATED INTO THE FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS 33
2.2.3. SUMMARY 35
2.3. PROBLEMS OF EMPIRICISM AND FALSIFICATIONISM 35
2.3.1. PROBLEMS WITH THE DEFINITION OF *UNPROBLEMATIC BACKGROUND
KNOWLEDGE* 36
2.3.1.1. POPPER ON THE RATIONALITY PRINCIPLE 36
2.3.1.2. ARGUMENTS FROM KUHN'S METHODOLOGY 38
2.3.1.2. ARGUMENTS FROM LAKATOS' METHODOLOGY 43
2.3.1.4. HOLISM AND COHERENTISM 47
2.3.2. PROBLEMS WITH THE EVALUATION OF THEORIES 50
2.3.2.1. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS WITH EMPIRICISM AND FALSIFICATION IN
ECONOMICS 50
2.3.2.2. TRUTH, VERISIMILITUDE AND PROGRESS - SEMANTIC PROBLEMS 51
2.3.2.3. DIAGNOSIS OF PROGRESS - PRAGMATIC PROBLEMS 55
2.3.2.4. PROBLEMS WITH THE APPRAISAL OF MODELS 56
2.3.2.5. DIFFICULTIES WITH ASSESSING THE USEFULNESS OF A PRIORI
REASONING 59
2.4. PROGRESS IN ECONOMICS - WHAT ROLE DOES EMPIRICISM PLAY? .61
2.4.1. CASE STUDY MACROECONOMICS: GROWTH THEORY 61 2.4.1.1. DISCUSSION
63
2.4.2. CASE STUDY MICROECONOMICS: THE STATUS OF THE RATIONALITY
ASSUMPTION IN ECONOMICS 65
2.4.2.1. THE RATIONAL CHOICE APPROACH 66
2.4.2.1.1. DISCUSSION 68
2.4.2.2. THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH 70
2.4.2.2.1. DISCUSSION 72
2.5. CONCLUSIONS IN BETWEEN 74
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TABLE OF CONTENT
3. POSTMODERN REACTIONS 77
3.1. THE RELATIVISTIC CHALLENGE 77
3.1.1. THE PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND FOR POSTMODERN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
78
3.1.1.1 WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE 79
3.1.1.2. NELSON GOODMAN 81
3.1.1.3. PAUL FEYERABEND 83
3.1.1.4. SUMMING UP 84
3.1.2. POSTMODERNISM IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 85
3.1.2.1. METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM 85
3.1.2.2. THE RHETORICAL TURN IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 88 3.2. CRITICISMS
OF POSTMODERNISM 93
3.2.1. SOME COUNTER-POSITIONS FROM PHILOSOPHY 93
3.2.1.1. PAUL BOGHOSSIAN - IN DEFENCE OF KNOWLEDGE 93 3.2.1.2. DANIEL
DENNETT - SCIENTICISM 96
3.2.1.3. THE SOKAL AFFAIR - REVEALING THE LACK OF STANDARDS IN
POSTMODERNISM? 99
3.2.2. CRITICISMS OF POSTMODERN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 101 3.2.2.1.
PROBLEMS WITH PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS 101
3.2.2.2. PROBLEMS WITH THE RHETORICAL TURN IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 102
3.3. POSTMODERN METHODOLOGY - A SUMMATION 105
4. TRYING TO OVERCOME THE DICHOTOMY OF EMPIRICISM AND POST- MODERNISM:
ESTABLISHING A PRAGMATIC VIEW ON ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 107
4.1 FINDING A NEW BALANCE 108
4.1.1. AN APT VIEW OF AN INEXACT SCIENCE 108
4.1.1.1. CRITICAL DISCUSSION 113
4.1.1.2. LESSONS LEARNED 114
4.1.2. A PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF MILTON FRIEDMAN'S METHODOLOGY 115
4.1.2.1. CRITICAL DISCUSSION 123
4.1.2.2. LESSONS LEARNED 128
4.1.3. TAKING PRAGMATISM SERIOUSLY: ECONOMICS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
129
4.1.3.1. CRITICAL DISCUSSION 137
4.1.3.2. LESSONS LEARNED 142
4.1.4. PRAGMATIC THEORY EVALUATION 143
4.1.4.1. PRAGMATIC VIEWS ON PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGYL43
4.1.4.2. REFLECTIONS ON MODEL BUILDING IN ECONOMICS 152 4.1.4.2.1
JUSTIFYING IDEALISATIONS 152
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4.1.4.2.2 LEARNING FROM MODELS 154
4.1.4.2.3 RATIONAL CHOICE AS HEURISTIC 158
4.1.4.3. SOME CRITERIA FOR THEORY EVALUATION 162
4.2. NO NEED FOR TRUTH BUT FOR A USEFUL METHODOLOGY 168 4.2.1. REALISTIC
POSITIONS IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY 168 4.2.1.1. GENERAL ARGUMENTS
SUPPORTING REALISM 168
4.2.1.2. USKALI MAID'S REALISM 171
4.2.1.3. TONY LAWSON'S REALISM 175
4.2.1.4. CRITICAL DISCUSSION 177
4.2.1.4.1 REJECTING THE GENERAL ARGUMENTS FOR REALISM 178 4.2.1.4.2
AGAINST MAKI'S REALISM 180
4.2.1.4. AGAINST LAWSON'S REALISM 182
4.2.1.5. LESSONS LEARNED 186
4.3. WHAT IS LEFT FOR THEORY EVALUATION? 188
5. CONCLUSIONS 197
5.1. CASE STUDIES OF PRAGMATIC THEORY APPRAISAL IN ECONOMICS. 197
5.1.1. FIRST CASE: INADEQUATE ASSUMPTIONS 199
5.1.2. SECOND CASE: OVER-INTERPRETATION 200
5.1.3. THIRD CASE: OTHER PROBLEMS WITH INTERPRETATION 202 5.1.4. FOURTH
CASE: NO PROBLEM IS SOLVED 203
5.1.5. CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CASE STUDIES 205
5.2. REFLECTIONS ON THE ROLE FOR METHODOLOGY 205
5.3. TAKING THE WIND OUT OF THE (PUTATIVE) CRITICS' SAILS 208
6. REFERENCES 213
7. APPENDIX 233
7.1. QUOTES SUPPORTING THE ANALOGY OF KUHN'S METHODOLOGY TO THE
ECONOMICS OF STANDARDISATION 233
7.2 HARROD-DOMAR MODELS 236
7.3. THE BASIC SOLOW MODEL 236
7.4. KITCHER'S ARGUMENT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IN
SCIENCE 237 |
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