Contributors ................................................. xiii
l. Introduction: The New Philosophy of Economics ............... 3
Don Ross and Harold Kincaid
Part I: Received Views in Philosophy of Economics
2. Laws, Causation, and Economic Methodology .................. 35
Daniel M. Hausman
3. If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It? ... 55
Alex Rosenberg
4. Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models ................. 68
Uskali Mäki
5. Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of
Knowledge .................................................. 99
Philip Mirowski
Part II: Microeconomics
6. Rationality and Indeterminacy ............................. 159
Cristina Bicchieri
7. Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences ......... 189
Jim Woodward
8. Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent
Economics ................................................. 223
John B. Davis
9. Integrating the Dynamics of Multiscale Economic Agency .... 245
Don Ross
10. Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and
Interpretation ............................................ 280
Francesco Guala
11. Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum
Auctions .................................................. 306
Anna Alexandrova and Robert Northcott
12. Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics: The
Limited Usefulness of Tinbergen's Four-Question
Classification ............................................ 337
Jack Vromen
Part III: Modeling, Macroeconomics, and Development
13. Computational Economics ................................... 371
Paul Humphreys
14. Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics ....... 386
Kevin D. Hoover
15. Causality, Invariance, and Policy ......................... 410
Nancy Cartwright
16. The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data
Mining in Economics ....................................... 424
Stan du Plessis
17. Explaining Growth ......................................... 455
Harold Kincaid
18. Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries ..... 476
Gary S. Fields
Part IV: Welfare
19. What Is Welfare and How Can We Measure It? ................ 511
Keith Dowding
20. Interpersonal Comparison of Utility ....................... 540
Ken Binmore
21. Subjective Measures of Well-Being: Philosophical
Perspectives .............................................. 560
Erik Angner
22. Facts and Values in Modern Economics ...................... 580
Partha Dasgupta
Author Index .................................................. 641
Subject Index ................................................. 651
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