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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS
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    PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS
    THOMAS A. BOYLAN / PASCHAL F. O'GORMAN
    With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation. One explanation for this failure is that the subject took a wrong turn in its historical trajectory, becoming too mathematical. Using the philosophy of mathematics, this unique book re-examines this trajec...

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  • HAHN AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
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    HAHN AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
    THOMAS BOYLAN / PASCHAL O'GORMAN
    Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising is distinctive with respect to four dimensions. Firstly, the aim of economic theor...

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  • ECONOMICS, RATIONAL CHOICE AND NORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY
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    ECONOMICS, RATIONAL CHOICE AND NORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY
    THOMAS BOYLAN
    Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions and equality. Thomas Boylan and Ruvin Gekker have gathered essays that reflect th...

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  • POPPER AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
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    POPPER AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
    THOMAS BOYLAN
    This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This ...

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  • POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COLONIAL IRELAND
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    POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COLONIAL IRELAND
    THOMAS BOYLAN / TADHG FOLEY
    `I believe that next to good Religious education, a sound knowledge of Political Economy would tend as much to tranquilize this country, if not more, than any other branch of knowledge that can be taught in schools.' - Cork Schools Inspector, 1853 In a nineteenth century Ireland that was divided socially, economically, politically and denominationally, consensus was sought in t...

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  • BEYOND RHETORIC AND REALISM IN ECONOMICS
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    BEYOND RHETORIC AND REALISM IN ECONOMICS
    THOMAS BOYLAN / PASCHAL O'GORMAN
    Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA ...

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