... Limited 2003 Finance Methodology Philosophy Paradigms Diversity The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the paradigmatic context and structure of the current theories and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms...

...Anghel N. Rugina Looks at the differences in new and old methodology with regard to economics and discusses the theories laid down by Quesnay and Smith in the eighteenth century, and also the modern revolution started by Malthus (1820). Further discusses the variations in thought by all the great...

...Thomas W. Hall; John E. Elliott After a clarification of definitions important in methodological discussions, a brief history of early methodological thought in economics and political economy is presented. The development of “orthodox” methodology is traced, and the fundamental assumptions...

... by a considerable methodological complexity, especially when the studies carried out are in the field of the non‐experimental social sciences, and in particular of environmental sciences. Defines six different levels of analysis with reference to a meta‐analytical approach in general, and identifies the most...

...Allen Oakley Suggests that, contrary to his neo‐Kantian methodological intentions, there is much textual evidence that Weber was not consistent in following through the non‐realist epistemology involved. In his search for the methodological bona fides of the empirical social sciences, he focused...

... concrete economic theory and methodology. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Economic theory Methodology Valuation Throughout human history economy and ecology have been intertwined. From early hunter‐gatherers to agricultural and modern industrial societies, natural resources have provided...

...Lewis E. Hill Contrasts the methodologies and policy implications of the respective theories of John Maynard Keynes and Alvin Hansen. Keynes used a rationalistic epistemology and deductive logic to deduce a pure theory of employment which implied that monetary policy would be an appropriate remedy...

... economist. It can also be fostered by an empiricist and monistic view of economics, according to which only observable data can be employed as the starting point for the true development of science. His own position in methodology, more oriented towards scientific dualism and a deductivistic procedure...

...Daniel J. O’Neil Examines the political philosophy of James Burnham (1905‐87) and attempts to place him within the context of American conservatism. Focuses on his methodology, view of human nature, perception of change,and his thoughts on the State and society. Concludes that Burnham– who moved...

...Lewis E. Hill Explicates and analyses selected economic methodologies: praxeology,positivism and institutionalism. Praxeology is a rationalistic methodology which utilizes deductive logic to deduce conclusions concerning economic behavior from postulates, which are self‐evident truths...

... and disjointed approaches of their respective disciplines, in building up a body of integrated theory and in suggesting new areas of research. The Dehumanisation of Economic Science: In Search Dehumanisation of Economic Science of the Appropriate Methodology Tomas J.F. Riha University of Queensland, Australia 47...

...John M. Gowdy Many of the early debates about economic methodology, marginalism versus discontinuous change, stasis versus turbulence, co‐operation versus competition, were at base questions of general scientific methodology. During the past 20 years or so there has been a virtual revolution...