Reflection without Rules by D Wade Hands

Reflection without Rules by D Wade Hands

Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science. Professor Hands investigates economists' use of naturalistic and sociological paradigms to model economic phenomena and assesses the roles of pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness in discussions of economic practice before turning to a systematic exploration of more recent developments in economic methodology. The treatment emphasizes the changes taking place in science theory and its relationship to the movement away from a rules-based view of economic methodology. The work will be of interest to all economists concerned with methodological issues as well as philosophers and others studying the relationships between economics and contemporary science theory.

' … a story well-told, highly informative and full of interesting materialReflections without Rules will remain for many years the main reference for those who want to get acquainted with economic methodology, and a most useful point of entry in this literature.' History of Economic Ideas
'This survey is, indeed, impressive. And certainly the book does have real value as a reference work in which generally clear and reliable summaries of ideas from science studies and from philosophy of economics can be found … there is an important project being promoted, and it is a project with considerable merit.' John Dupré, University of Exeter
'… wide-ranging, thorough and highly readable stocktaking of different eras and areas of the subject - beginning with the history of the methodology of economics (Mill and Positivism) and the breakdown of the Received View in the philosophy of science (Logical Positivism, Logical Empiricism and Popperian Falsificationism), moving on through Naturalism, the Sociological turn and Pragmatism, and closing with overviews of recent developments in the methodology literature and the Economics of Science … it is one of the best in the area to have appeared in a long time and one I shall be returning to for many years to come.' Jochen Runde, University of Cambridge
'I wish this book had been available to me back when I was in graduate school struggling to learn about economic methodological issues without a formal guide or class. Hands provides a very useful starting point for inquiry into a dauntingly complex area, and he summarizes important debates of great interest to economists. Reflections without rules is virtually a course in a book.' Diana Strassmann, Rice University

Wilfred Dolfsma is Professor and Chair of Business Management and Organisation at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the University of Curacao. He has published over twenty books and over one hundred articles in international academic journals.

D. Wade Hands is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Puget Sound, USA, and has taught history of economic thought for over thirty years. He has written on a wide range of topics in the history of economic thought and economic methodology.

Robert McMaster is Professor of Political Economy in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published numerous academic articles and was a co-editor of the Review of Social Economy from 2005 to 2017.

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ISBN 13	9780521797962
ISBN 10	0521797969
Title	Reflection without Rules
Author	D Wade Hands
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2001-04-09
Number of pages	494
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