This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. T...(展开全部)

This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. T...(展开全部)

How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these questions, Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In 15 essays, he evaluates the contributions of a number of figur...(展开全部)

Max Weber，The Methodology of the Social Sciences，edited and translated by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, with a foreword by Edward Shils,New York：The Free Press,1949.

How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this pathbreaking book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science. Ranging through the hist...(展开全部)

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a wh...(展开全部)

This text progressively develops the mathematical tools students need to perform economic analysis and assumes the student has a knowledge of calculus and intermediate microeconomic skills. There is a careful integration of the mathematics with the presentation of economics, with emphasis on those techniques most widely used by economists. Examples clearly illustrate the crucia...(展开全部)

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. In this completely revised second edition, Deirdre N. McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion. The Rhetoric of Economics shows economists to be human persuaders, poets of ...(展开全部)

[美]迪尔德丽·N. 麦克洛斯基（Deirdre N. McCloskey），著名经济学家、经济史学家，美国伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校经济学、历史学、英语、传播学荣誉教授，曾在芝加哥学派最辉煌的年代执教于芝加哥大学经济学系。除经济学领域，迪尔德丽也涉足女性主义、伦理学、哲学等，她称自己为一名“文学的、量化的、后现代的女性”。著有《经济学的修辞》《经济学的叙事》《芝加哥大学写作课》《跨性别者回忆录》等。

伊姆雷・拉卡托斯（1922-1974）、著名数学哲学家和科学哲学家，当代西方科学哲学“历史学派”主要代表人物之一。本书收入任教关于科学哲学的五篇重要论文，集中体现了作者的科学哲学观和历史方法论。书中批判了波普尔的证伪主义方法论与库恩的非理性主义科学心理学。提出了一个理论演替的合理的动态的科学发展模式，主张以科学史检验科学方法论，并倡导以典型历史实例进行“案例研究”的方法。