The Cambridge controversies in capital theory a study in the logic of theory development
"A controversy in capital theory dominated economics in the 1960s and 1970s. Economists based in Cambridge, England detected flaws in the production model of neoclassical economics, associated with Cambridge, America. This debate established that the aggregate measure K for capital could not be...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 47. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38498625*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The K that wouldn't go away
- The sleepwalker effect
- Levels and problems
- Idealizations and the method of economics: some historical background
- The way forward
- A brief exposition of reswitching and capital reversing
- The model
- Characteristic propositions of neoclassical production theory
- Perversities and anomalies
- The background of the debate: some history
- Robinson's research programme
- Discontinuities in the recent history of economic thought
- Clouds in the neoclassical sky
- Robinson defines the problem
- Champernowne's solution
- Robinson returns to the problem
- Taking methodological stock (I)
- The Polish idealization model
- Back to the capital theory debate
- Correspondence and factualization
- An excursion into the philosophy of science
- Better roughly right than precisely wrong?
- An example of correspondence
- Triumph and crisis of the neoclassical production model
- Neoclassical triumph
- Crisis for the neoclassical model
- Taking methodological stock (II)
- The antipodean idealization model
- Aiming at a complete model of idealizations
- From curiosum to issue
- A little theorem with big consequences
- The symposium
- Neoclassical reactions
- Hicks hunts the snark
- Brown pursues the trail
- More neoclassical resources are mobilized
- Taking methodological stock (III)
- Tactics and moves
- Strategies and likelihoods
- AIM and PIM reconsidered
- Weapons
- The role of mathematics
- Mathematics as a neutral instrument.
