Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?

By:

Alexander Rosenberg

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Paperback / softback

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Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF

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Economics today cannot predict the likely outcome of specific events any better than it could in the time of Adam Smith. This is Alexander Rosenberg's controversial challenge to the scientific status of economics. Rosenberg explains that the defining characteristic of any science is predictive improvability—the capacity to create more precise forecasts by evaluating the success of earlier predictions—and he forcefully argues that because economics has not been able to increase its predictive power for over two centuries, it is not a science.

Author Biography:

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the author of many books, including Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? and Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Release date Australia

November 28th, 1994

Author

Alexander Rosenberg

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

283

Series

Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF

Dimensions

16x22x1

ISBN-13

9780226727240

Product ID

3486670

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