Philosophy of Economics
The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as well as the first signs of an institutionalization (conferences, an international journal) of the philosophy of economics as a scientifi
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WOLFGANG BALZER and BERT HAMMINGA
Reprinted from
Erkenntnis Volume 30, Nos. 1-2, 1989
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Phi losophy of economics I edited by Wolfgang Balzer and Bert p. em. Papers presented at a conference at Tl Iburg University, Netherlands, July 1987. "Reprinted from Erkenntnls, volume 30, nos. 1-2, 1989." 1. Econol1l1 cs--Ph 11 osophY--Congresses. II. Haulnga, Bert, 1951HB72.P47 1989 330' .01--dc19
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ERKENNTNIS / Volume 30
Nos. 1-2 March 1989
PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
Guest Editors WOLFGANG BALZER and BERT HAMMINGA Introduction
1
DANIEL M. HAUSMAN / Arbitrage Arguments
5
ALAN NELSON / Average Explanations ALEXANDER ROSENBERG / Are Enough?
Generic
23 Predictions 43
CRISTINA BICCHIERI / Self-Refuting Theories of Strategic Interaction: A Paradox of Common Knowledge
69
ADOLFO G. DE LA SIENRA / Open Problems in the Foundations of Price Formation Dynamics
87
MARIA R. DI NUCCI PEARCE and DAVID PEARCE / Economics and Technological Change: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
101
WOLFGANG BALZER and ERNST W. HAENDLER / Ordinary Least Squares as a Method of Measurement
129
WERNER DIEDERICH / The Economic Theory
147
Development
of
Marx's
MAARTEN C. W. JANSSEN / Structuralist Reconstructions of Classical and Keynesian Macroeconomics MAARTEN C. W. JANSSEN and THEO A. F. KUIPERS / Stratification of General Equilibrium Theory: A Synthesis of Reconstructions JOSEPH D. SNEED / Micro-Economic Models of Problem Choice in Basic Science
165
183 207
LESZEK NOW AK / On the (Idealizational) Structure of Economic Theories
225
BERT HAMMINGA / Sneed Versus Nowak: An Illustration in Economics
247
Further Publications of the Authors
267
INTRODUCTION
The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as well as the first signs of an institutionalization (conferences, an international journal) of the philosophy of economics as a scientific subject in itself -
