Is There Progress in Economics?

Edited by Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz Kurz and Richard Sturn

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 G0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
ISBN: 9781840646832
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Does Progress matter?

Donald Winch

Ch 2 Is there really progress in economics?

Mark Blaug

Ch 3 On Applying Foucauldian methods to the history of economic thought

Klaus Hamberger

Ch 4 A conservative approach to progress in economics

Jack Birner

Ch 5 Metaphors in the Wealth of Nations

Sergio Cremaschi

Ch 6 On progress and the history of economic thought

Roger Backhouse

Ch 7 Scientific progress: complexities of a contestable concept

Uskali Mäki

Ch 8 Progress in economics

Luigi Pasinetti

Ch 9 Apparent progress due to forgetfulness or reinterpretation

Erich W. Streissler

Ch 10 Is there progress in normative economics?

Philippe Mongin

Ch 11 New lines of research in monetary economics

Augusto Graziani

Ch 12 The credit theory of Carl Knies

Hans-Michael Trautwein

Ch 13 On the new economic geography and the progress of geographical economics

Stephen Meardon

Ch 14 How new is the 'new trade theory' of the past two decades?

Andrea Maneschi

Ch 15 The 'institutional factor' in the theory of international trade: new vs. old trade theories*

Sergio Parrinello

Ch 16 Location theory and mathematical programming: progress or rediscovery?

Manuel Fernández-López

Ch 17 Contemporary responses to the Tableau Economique

Richard van den Berg

Ch 18 Progess in Austrian economics from Menger to Lachmann

Sandye Gloria-Palermo

Ch 19 Walras' law and the IS–LM model: a tale of progress and regress

Hansjörg Klausinger

Ch 20 Information costs, deliberation costs and transaction costs: a parallel treatment*

Maurice Lagueux

Ch 21 Produced quantities and returns in Sraffa's theory of normal prices: textual evidence and analytical issues

Fabio Ravagnani

Ch 22 On the long-period method: a comment on Ravagnani

Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori

Ch 23 Sraffa's price equations: a stationary economy or 'normal positions'?

Pierangelo Garegnani

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