Pluralism in Economics New Perspectives in History and Methodology
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Edited by Andrea Salanti, Professor of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy and Ernesto Screpanti, Professor of Economics, University of Siena, Italy<i>'. . . provides a valuable and provocative discussion. . . particularly good in exploring the variety of things that pluralism might mean. . .'</i>
The contributors attempt to reconcile two major strands of thinking in economic methodology: the 'rhetoric' of economics as advocated by Deirdre McCloskey and the sociological approach which argues that scientific knowledge can be best analysed in the context of a sociological understanding of the scientific enterprise.
The book has been prepared under the auspices of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and presents new work by leading economists from both Europe and North America.