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Edited by John B. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, D. Wade Hands, Professor of Economics, University of Puget Sound, US and Uskali Mäki, Academy Professor, Academy of Finland, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland<i>'The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together an impressive array of scholars. There are 93 contributors to the volume in a list that includes the authoritative names in economic methodology one would expect to be present.'</i>
This comprehensive Handbook includes a variety of substantive entries in which experts in the field summarise past achievements in economic methodology and indicate the direction of future research. They provide biographical entries to introduce important economists, methodologists and philosophers. The volume also focuses on economic issues to which economic methodology is central and wider intellectual themes that have impinged on economic methodology, from general movements in intellectual history to broad philosophical themes. Orthodox and heterodox approaches to economics and epistemological, ontological, logical and normative dimensions of economic methodology are discussed and evaluated.
This magnificent reference work presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the evolution of economic methodology as well as prospects for its future development. The Handbook of Economic Methodology will be indispensable to those with an interest in economic methodology, the philosophy of economics and the history of economic thought.