TY - BOOK AU - Fox, Glenn TI - Reason and reality in the methodologies of economics : : an introduction T2 - Advances in economic methodology U1 - 330.072 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Cheltenham PB - E. Elgar KW - METODOLOGIA ECONOMICA KW - TEORIA ECONOMICA KW - ECONOMISTAS N1 - Bibliografía: p. 129-138; List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1. Is there a crisis in economics? -- 2. How do economists know what they know? -- 3. What is methodology? --4. Economics as positivism and falsificationism -- 5. Economics as prediction -- 6. Economics as deduction -- 7. Economics as realism -- 8. Economics as conversation and rhetoric -- 9. Is economics a science? -- References -- Index; Cómo citar éste libro con Normas APA: Fox, G. (1997). Reason and reality in the methodologies of economics : an introduction. E. Elgar; Bibliografía de la asignatura Metodología de la Economía. Licenciatura en Economía (plan 2009), 2do semestre. N2 - This highly original new book examines the scientific status of economics from the perspective of practising economists. It studies how they evaluate their theories, the relationship between those theories and the phenomena they are intended to represent, and the philosophy, methodology and scientific credentials of economics. It examines the tension between economics as the logic of rational choice and as a predictive science, that is reason and reality respectively ER -