Uncertainty in Economics A New Approach /

• Main Author: Köhn, Julia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Contributions to Economics,
• Subjects: Risk management.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Schools of economics.; Macroeconomics.; Economics.; Heterodox Economics.; Risk Management.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

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 conceptualize...

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. .