A Taxonomy of Economic Theories Based upon Intended Epistemological Status and Pragmatic Function

Erwin Klein
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Erwin Klein: Dalhousie University

Chapter 4 in Economic Theories and their Relational Structures, 1998, pp 29-45 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The body of contemporary theoretical economics is made up of an ever-increasing number of more or less interdependent individual theories with differentiated cognitive and operative functions. The main purpose of Part II is to devise and illustrate a classification of economic theories that would serve as a framework tentatively to accommodate the main results of this study to be developed in detail in Parts III and IV. The suggested taxonomy criterion will permit a classification of economic theories according to their intended epistemological status and instrumental roles.

Keywords: Relational Structure; Social Welfare Function; Income Equality; Federal Fund Rate; Empirical Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377646_4

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