Font Size: a A A

Empirical Research, Science And Philosophy Methodology Of Economics

Posted on:2006-03-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2190360155475653Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
The development of philosophy of science has a history of more than 200 years, during this period, have produced a lot of powerful schools of philosophy of science. This paper mainly investigated methodological view of philosophy of science, including logical empiricism, Popper' s falsificationism, Kuhn ' s historicism, Lakatos ' s sophisticated falsificationism and Feyerabend' s pluralism. These methodological views produced some important influence to economic methodology. This paper adopted positive research method, it comes from the historical instances of the development of economics. This kind of influence not merely embody the research method of economics, and still embody in such all respects as the outlook on life of economist, the change of the economic school, the development of non-mainstream economics.Through the positive research that can be seen, the methodology of philosophy of science has been gone through from verification to falsification, from rationality to irrationality, from static to dynamic, from single to pluralism, from inside to external, from theory to practice. The development of economic theory has roughly gone through such an evolution too.
Keywords/Search Tags:philosophy of science, economic methodology, verification, falsification, history, pluralism
PDF Full Text Request
Related items