Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
‘Truth’ and ‘Discourse’ in the Social Construction of Economic Reality: An Essay on the Relation of Knowledge to Socioeconomic Policy....Pages 11-28
The Idea of the Corporation as a Person: On the Normative Significance of Judicial Language....Pages 29-48
Machlup on Knowledge: Science, Subjectivism and the Social Nature of Knowledge....Pages 49-61
A Critique of the Discursive Systems and Foundation Concepts of Distribution Analysis....Pages 62-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
An Essay on the Nature and Significance of the Normative Nature of Economics....Pages 85-91
Determinate Solutions and Valuational Processes: Overcoming the Foreclosure of Process....Pages 92-107
The Methodology of Economics and the Case for Policy Diffidence and Restraint....Pages 108-129
Economics as a Science and its Relation to Policy: The Example of Free Trade....Pages 130-153
The Knight-Ayres Correspondence: The Grounds of Knowledge and Social Action....Pages 154-200
On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence....Pages 201-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Ideology in Economics....Pages 233-248
The Historical Treatment of the Problem of Value Judgements: An Interpretation....Pages 249-260
You Cannot Derive ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’....Pages 261-265
A Necessary Normative Context of Positive Economics?....Pages 266-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
On the Attribution of Causality and Responsibility in Macroeconomics....Pages 275-287
Of Lookout Cows and the Methodology of Economics....Pages 288-291
Economics and Theology: The Fundamental Common Problem....Pages 292-297
The Pareto Principle: Another View....Pages 298-310
Two Concepts of ‘Politicization’....Pages 311-314
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
The Pervasive Proposition, ‘What Is, Is and Ought to Be’: A Critique....Pages 315-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-332