The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics Volume I: A Revival of Myrdal, Frisch, Tinbergen, Johansen and Leontief /

• Main Author: Archibugi, Franco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Philosophy and social sciences.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

In this book - the first of three volumes - Franco Archibugi sets out to create an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of the conventional analysis from a "positive" approach to a "programming" approach. This overturning leads to a reappraisal of the foun...

Table of Contents:

• 1. How scientific are the social sciences?
• 2. Toward a new scientific paradigm for the social science: according Myrdal
• 3. Planning and planning theory: the difficult legacy of Ragnar Frisch
• 4. Basic requirements for the Programming approach
• 5. The 'Programming approach'
• 6. The political preference function
• 7. The impact of the programming approach on socio-economic modelling
• 8. The World-Wide Vision and the 'Central Planning' Vision: Methodology for the Implementation of the 'Programming Approach' (The Great Jan Tinbergen's Role' )
• 9. The Pitfalls of Implicit Theorising and the Abuse of Indirect Statistical Inference: Leontief 's Criticism (of Robinson, Kahn, Hicks, Keynes and Many Other Authors, Based on Implicit Theorising).