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Rosenberg, Alexander

 
9780226727233: Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0226727238 ISBN 13 : 9780226727233
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226727238
ISBN 13 
9780226727233
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
283
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