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  title info:
    title: Uncertainty in Economics
    sub title: A New Approach
  name:
    name part: Köhn, Julia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 199 p. 9 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that uncertainty was originally conceptualized both as an epistemic and an ontological problem. As a result of the economic professions’ attempt to become acknowledged as a science, the more problematic aspect of ontological uncertainty has been neglected and the subjective probability approach to uncertainty became dominant in economic theory. A careful analysis of ontological theories of uncertainty explains the blindness of modern economics to economic phenomena such as instability, slumps or excessive booms. Based on these findings the author develops a new approach that legitimizes a New Uncertainty Paradigm in economics.
  table of contents: Part I: Uncertainty in economic thought -- Uncertainty in the history of economic thought -- Truth, probability and uncertainty -- The principles of economics -- Probability and neoclassical uncertainty -- Part II: Philosophies of uncertainty -- The origin of the profit -- Uncertainty and economic instability.-The division of knowledge and unknowledge -- The nature of economics -- Part III: Methodology of uncertainty -- Extending the boundaries of economics -- Uncertainty and fiction -- Human after all. .
  note: by Julia Köhn.
  subject:
    topic: Risk management
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Schools of economics
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Heterodox Economics
  subject:
    topic: Risk Management
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contributions to Economics
  identifier: 9783319553511
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55351-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 170704
    record change date: 20170704180452.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-55351-1