Rules for Scientific Research in Economics The Alpha-Beta Method /

• Main Author: Figueroa, Adolfo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

The new research method presented in this book ensures that all economic theories are falsifiable and that irrefutable theories are scientifically sound. Figueroa combines the logically consistent aspects of Popperian and process epistemologies in his alpha-beta method to address the widespread prob...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Science is Epistemology
• 2 Alpha-Beta: A Scientific Research Method
• 3 The Economic Process
• 4 The Alpha-Beta Method in Economics
• 5 Falsifying Economic Theories (I)
• 6 Falsifying Economic Theories (II)
• 7 The Alpha-Beta Method and Other Methods
• 8 Fallacies in Scientific Argumentation
• 9 Comparing Economics and Natural Sciences
• 10 Conclusions.