Economics : mathematical politics or science of diminishing returns?

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Economics : mathematical politics or science of diminishing returns?

Alexander Rosenberg

(Science and its conceptual foundations)

University of Chicago Press, 1994, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index

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Description

Economics today cannot predict the likely outcome of specific events any better than it could in the time of Adam Smith. This is Alexander Rosenberg's controversial challenge to the scientific status of economics. Rosenberg explains that the defining characteristic of any science is predictive improvability-the capacity to create more precise forecasts by evaluating the success of earlier predictions-and he forcefully argues that because economics has not been able to increase its predictive power for over two centuries, it is not a science.

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  • NCID
    BA24915550
  • ISBN
    • 0226727246
  • LCCN
    92000140
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 266 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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