TY - BOOK AU - Medema,Steven G. AU - Samuels,Warren J. TI - Foundations of research in economics: how do economists do economics T2 - Advances in economic methodology SN - 1858981638 AV - HB74.5 .F68 1998 U1 - 330.072 20 PY - 1998/// CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA PB - Edward Elgar KW - Economics KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Tables --; List of Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1; Economics is a Historical Process --; 2; Realism in Economic Model Building --; 3; Economics as a Public Science --; 4; Surviving as a Slightly Out of Sync Economist --; 5; Extracting Economic Information From Data: Methedology in an Empirical Discipline --; 6; The Social Science of Wealth --; 7; What is To Be Done (about Economics)? --; 8; Doing Applied Economics: Normative and Positive Aspects --; 9; How I Do Economics --; 10; Towards a Worthwhile Economics --; 11; How Should Economists Do Economics? A Pragmatic Perspective --; 12; How to be a Crazy Economist --; 13; Doing the Economics of Trust and Informal Institutions --; 14; The Predictive Science of Economics? --; 15; Questions, Theory and Data --; 16; The Dark Side of Economic Modeling --; 17; 'You're Not Making Sense, You're Just Being Logical' --; 18; Puzzle Solving: Reciprocity, Reasoning and Behavior --; 19; Doing Economics Without Homo Economicus --; 20; What Use is Economic Theory? --; 21; A Dictum for Monetary Theory --; How Should Economists Do Economics? An Integrative Essay --; Index ER -