The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry.It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities for cross-fertilization.
The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry. It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities for cross-fertilization.
Comprising 35 chapters by a diverse team of contributors from all over the globe, the Handbook is divided into eight sections:
I. Rationality
II. Cooperation and Interaction
III. Methodology
IV. Values
V. Causality and Explanation
VI. Experimentation and Simulation
VII. Evidence
VIII. Policy
The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in economics and philosophy who are interested in exploring the interconnections between the two disciplines. It is also a valuable resource for those in related fields like political science, sociology, and the humanities.
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Economics has shaped our world through the influence its ideas have had on business behaviour and government policies. As this climate of ideas is clearly changing, there could not be a better time to explore the philosophy of economics. This Handbook is an important contribution to interrogating economics and asking how the discipline could be set on firmer ethical and philosophical foundations. Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge
This handbook is a unique reference on the philosophy of economics, with a very comprehensive coverage and an impressive slate of contributors, many of them belonging to a generation of emerging scholars in the field. It nicely integrates questions of rationality, ethics, and methodology, and it firmly establishes the intimate connection between philosophy and economics, two disciplines which share many traits and interests. A most useful resource for researchers and students interested in the field. Marc Fleurbaey, Paris School of Economics
Handbooks manifest progress and growth of a research field. Since the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics (2009) and Philosophy of Economics / Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (2012) about a decade ago, there have been many important new developments in the field. Here we have a wonderfully enriched variety of topics presented to us by an impressive group of a new generation of experts. Uskali Mäki, University of Helsinki
Handbooks are in fashion; this one addresses both philosophers questions about economics and economists engagement with philosophy. Its 35 chapters range from discussions of the hard, but shared, issues of ethics and values, to the equally difficult practical problems about how economics gets done on the scientific frontier. An invaluable companion piece for both disciplinary communities, and for those who practice in both. Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics
1. Introduction
2. History of Utility Theory
3. The Economics and
Philosophy of Risk
4. Behavioral Welfare Economics and Consumer Sovereignty
5. The Economic Concept of a Preference
6. Economic Agency and the
Subpersonal Turn in Economics
7. Game Theory and Rational Reasoning
8.
Institutions, Rationality, and Coordination
9. As If Social Preference Models
10. Exploitation and Consumption
11. Philosophy of Economics? Three Decades
of Bibliometric History
12. Philosophy of Austrian Economics
13.
Representation
14. Finance and Financial Economics: A Philosophy of Science
Perspective
15. Values in Welfare Economics
16. Measurement and Value
Judgements
17. Reflections on the State of Economics and Ethics
18.
Well-Being
19. Fairness and Fair Division
20. Causality and Probability
21.
Causal Contributions in Economics
22. Explanation in Economics
23. Modeling
the Possible to Modeling the Actual
24. Experimentation in Economics
25.
Field Experiments
26. Computer Simulations in Economics
27. Evidence-Based
Policy
28. Economic Theory and Empirical Science
29. Philosophy of
Econometrics
30. Statistical Significance Testing in Economics
31.
Quantifying Health
32. Freedoms, Political Economy, and Liberalism
33.
Freedom and Markets
34. Policy Evaluation Under Severe Uuncertainty: A
Cautious, Egalitarian Approach
35. Behavioral Public Policy: One Name, Many
Types. A Mechanistic Perspective
36. The Case for Regulating Tax Competition
Conrad Heilmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), and Core Faculty of the Erasmus Initiative Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He works on rational choice theory, fairness, finance, and other topics in the philosophy of economics.
Julian Reiss is Professor of Philosophy at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method. He is the author of Causation, Evidence, and Inference (Routledge, 2015), Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2013), Error in Economics: Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology (Routledge, 2008; Erasmus Philosophy International Research Prize), and more than 60 papers in leading philosophy and social science journals and edited collections.
