Methodology and History of Economics

Auteur

Bruce Caldwell is a Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, first published in 1982. For the past three decades, his research has focused on the multi-faceted writings of the Nobel prize-winning economist and social theorist Friedrich A. Hayek.

John Davis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam, is author of The Theory of the Individual in Economics (2003). He is also the editor of the Routledge Advances in Social Economics series. Davis' research has focused on the philosophy and methodology of economics, identity and economics, and healthcare economics.

Uskali Mäki is a Philosophy Professor at the University of Helsinki and a Visiting Professor at Nankai University, China. He is a former editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology (1995-2005). His current research is mainly on the philosophy of economics and other social sciences, on models, scientific realism, interdisciplinarity, and social aspects of science.

Esther-Mirjam Sent is Professor of Economic Theory and Policy at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Sent is co-editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. Her research explores behavioral economics, experimental economics, and economic policy, as well as the history and philosophy of economic science.

Texte du rabat

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics.