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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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1 The K that wouldn't go away |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (2) |
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4 Idealizations and the method of economics: some historical background |
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6 | (5) |
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11 | (3) |
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1 A brief exposition of res witching and capital reversing |
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14 | (8) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (3) |
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3 Characteristic propositions of neoclassical production theory |
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18 | (1) |
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4 Perversities and anomalies |
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18 | (4) |
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2 The background of the debate: some history |
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22 | (6) |
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1 Robinson's research programme |
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22 | (2) |
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2 Discontinuities in the recent history of economic thought |
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24 | (4) |
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3 Clouds in the neoclassical sky |
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28 | (19) |
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1 Robinson defines the problem |
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2 Champernowne's solution |
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38 | (3) |
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3 Robinson returns to the problem |
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41 | (3) |
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44 | (3) |
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4 Taking methodological stock (I) |
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47 | (19) |
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1 The Polish idealization model |
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2 Back to the capital theory debate |
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53 | (1) |
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3 Correspondence and factualization |
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54 | (2) |
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4 An excursion into the philosophy of science |
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56 | (3) |
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5 Better roughly right than precisely wrong? |
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59 | (2) |
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6 An example of correspondence |
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61 | (5) |
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5 Triumph and crisis of the neoclassical production model |
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66 | (18) |
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67 | (10) |
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2 Crisis for the neoclassical model |
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77 | (7) |
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6 Taking methodological stock (II) |
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84 | (9) |
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1 The antipodean idealization model |
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84 | (2) |
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2 Aiming at a complete model of idealizations |
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86 | (7) |
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93 | (17) |
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1 A little theorem with big consequences |
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94 | (3) |
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97 | (13) |
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110 | (19) |
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111 | (3) |
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2 Brown pursues the trail |
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114 | (6) |
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3 More neoclassical resources are mobilized |
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120 | (9) |
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9 Taking methodological stock (III) |
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129 | (9) |
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129 | (5) |
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2 Strategies and likelihoods |
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134 | (1) |
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3 AIM and PIM reconsidered |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (2) |
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10 The role of mathematics |
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1 Mathematics as a neutral instrument |
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138 | (2) |
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2 Mathematics as an integral part of scientific discovery |
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140 | (4) |
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3 The adoption of mathematics by economists |
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144 | (1) |
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4 The dialectics of mathematics and science |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (13) |
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11 Taking methodological stock (IV) |
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1 The sorcerer's apprentices |
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160 | (2) |
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2 From the science of mathematics to the mathematics of science |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (1) |
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5 Proofs, programmes, and strategies |
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165 | (2) |
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167 | (21) |
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167 | (1) |
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2 The ironies explained: sleepwalking on the object level |
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168 | (1) |
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3 Empirical versus formal arguments: sleepwalking on the meta level |
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4 What do research programmes do? |
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171 | (2) |
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5 Presuppositions as heuristics |
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173 | (1) |
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6 Modelling presuppositions |
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174 | (5) |
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7 Presuppositions and the logic of discovery |
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179 | (1) |
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8 Methodological spin-off |
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180 | (1) |
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9 Different models for different purposes? Three types of pluralism |
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181 | (2) |
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10 Idealization: between instrument and explanation |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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