How should economists connect economic theories with observation and measurement? Amanar Akhabbar’s book Wassily Leontief et la science économique investigates one specific view about this fundamental issue. The narrative thread of the book is Leontief’s work and his views on the methodology and epistemology of economics: a 50-year long constant call for (and practice of) a closer articulation between measurement and theory. For Leontief, Akhabbar argues, economics should aim at building “emp..
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I argue that most economists pay little attention to epistemological considerations and developments...
What is truth? What is knowledge? How can knowledge be identified? How can the growth of knowledge b...
On Present Directions of Economic Research . These personal and critical reflections, addressed ma...
International audiencePierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg raise the problem of the scientific status a...
I agree with Nell and Errouaki that an econometrics based on neoclassical economic theory fails to d...
Wassily Leontief is one of the central creators and shapers of twentieth-century economics. He inven...
Relevance of research topic: Cross-sectoral balance is a tool with unique qualities for analyzing an...
Many Austrians consider methodology to be the distinguishing characteristic of the school of thought...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...
Many economists, and even methodologists, believe that the very abstractness of abstract methodology...
The question of method in economics This article first mentions the increasingly widespread applic...
Des travaux de Wassily Leontief, on retient surtout ses tableaux entrées-sorties (TES), les célèbres...
Guitton Henri. Measurement in economics. Studies in mathematical economics and econometrics in memor...
The role of economists in a society - The role of economists in a society is linked to their ability...
How broad should the objectives assigned to economics be ? Considering the difficulties of explainin...
I argue that most economists pay little attention to epistemological considerations and developments...
What is truth? What is knowledge? How can knowledge be identified? How can the growth of knowledge b...
On Present Directions of Economic Research . These personal and critical reflections, addressed ma...