methodology and epistemology as if economics really mattered /
First Statement of Responsibility
James R. Wible.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xviii, 266 pages) :
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illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge frontiers of political economy,
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13
ISSN of Series
1359-7914 ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-260) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Chapter 1 WHY AN ECONOMICS OF SCIENCE? -- chapter 2 AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF REPLICATION FAILURE -- chapter 3 AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF FRAUD IN SCIENCE -- chapter 4 PEIRCE'S ECONOMICS OF RESEARCH PROJECT SELECTION -- chapter 5 A COST-BENEFIT APPROACH TO RESEARCH PROJECT SELECTION, POPPER'S METHODOLOGY, AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS -- chapter 6 MARKET FAILURE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS -- The caseso f Karl Popper and the economics profession -- chapter 7 MARKET FAILURE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS -- The case of Friedman's essay -- chapter SELF-CORRECTIVE SCIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF MARKET FAILURE -- The marketplace of ideas is not really a market -- chapter 9 ON THE ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE, THE FIRM, AND THE MARKETPLACE -- chapter 10 TOWARDS AN EVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTION OF RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS -- chapter 11 INTERNAL CRITICISM AND THE PROBLEM OF SELF-REFERENCE -- chapter 12 AN ECONOMIC CRITIQUE OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF ECONOMIC THEORY AND METHOD.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as an economically rational individual. This book begins with economic models of misconduct in science and the legitimate, normal practices of science, moving on to market failure, the market place of ideas, self-correctiveness, and the organizational and institutional structures of science. An exploration of broader methodological themes raised by an economics of science ends the work.