Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? - Couverture souple

Rosenberg, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226727246 ISBN 13 : 9780226727240

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

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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À propos de l'auteur

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the author of many books, including Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? and Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226727246
• ISBN 13: 9780226727240
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 283
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