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020 $a9781137371928 (hbk.)
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050 4 $aHB171.5$b.D43 2014
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100 1 $aDeCanio, Stephen J.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLimits of economic and social knowledge /$cStephen J. DeCanio, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
260 $aBasingstoke ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c℗♭2014.
300 $axiii, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
505 0 $a(from table of contents) Materialism, determinism, and economics: an overview -- Consequences of computational limits -- Simulating simple societies -- Economics and physical science -- Economics, behaviorism, and utilitarianism -- A case study and cautionary tale: Climate policy -- Politics and governance -- The Gift of freedom.
520 $a"It might seem that contemporary economic theory offers a scientific account of choice among alternatives. Yet this is only superficially the case; the behavior of the agents in most economic models is completely specified by preference functions, technological possibilities, and market interactions. 'Choice' is a misnomer for solution of one or another kind of optimization problem in such models. The open-endedness that characterizes genuinely free choices made by real human beings is absent. The book aims to show that (1) the deterministic vision embodied in conventional economic modeling is neither consistent with nor supported by [the] state of the art [in] mathematics, logic, and physical science; (2) use of models that rule out unpredictability and freedom of action has had negative consequences for policy design and implementation; and (3) restoring meaningful freedom to the agents is an essential first step toward making social theorizing more realistic and insightful."--Back cover.
650 0 $aEconomics$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aEconomics$xMathematical models.
650 0 $aEconomics.
650 0 $aEconomic man.
650 0 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects.
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