Rationality, institutions, and economic methodology / edited by Uskali Mäki, Bo Gustafsson & Christian Knudsen. - London ; New York : Routledge, c1993. - xi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Economics as social theory .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; ECONOMICS WITH INSTITUTIONS: AGENDA FOR METHODOLOGICAL ENQUIRY; ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY: RATIONALE, FOUNDATIONS, PROSPECTS; POPPER AND LAKATOS IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL THEORIES OF SCIENCE AND THE FATE OF INSTITUTIONALISM IN ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION, RULE-FOLLOWING, AND THE METHODOLOGY OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM, PERFECT RATIONALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF SELF-REFERENCE IN ECONOMICS; RATIONAL CHOICE, RULE-FOLLOWING AND INSTITUTIONS: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE INSTITUTIONAL STABILITY AND CHANGE IN SCIENCE AND THE ECONOMYEVOLUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: ON THE NATURE OF SELECTION IN BIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS; INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; MODELLING RATIONALITY, INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES IN ECONOMIC THEORY

0415075718 (hbk.) TZs.122437/- 0415092086 (pbk.)


Institutional economics.
Economics

330.120 RAT