How economists think: a kantian interpretation of mainstream economics

By:

Buccola, Steven

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge Frontiers of Political EconomyPublication details: Routledge London 2025Description: 147 pISBN:

9781032847122

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330 BUC

Summary: Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naïve. For their part too, most economists don’t know much formal philosophy. The purpose of the present book is to help bridge this great divide between philosopher and economist. Arguing for the person-centered mainstream economics over what would be an objects-centered scientific one, it makes a systematic case that the epistemology of the economics used in research and teaching today derives from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. On these grounds it is shown that understanding modern economics is a matter of becoming familiar with Kant’s interpretative forms of perception, judgment, and reason. It will be vital reading for philosophers, economists, and others interested in these two critical professions. (https://www.routledge.com/How-Economists-Think-A-Kantian-Interpretation-of-Mainstream-Economics/Buccola/p/book/9781032847122)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	330 BUC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		007667

Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naïve. For their part too, most economists don’t know much formal philosophy.

The purpose of the present book is to help bridge this great divide between philosopher and economist. Arguing for the person-centered mainstream economics over what would be an objects-centered scientific one, it makes a systematic case that the epistemology of the economics used in research and teaching today derives from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. On these grounds it is shown that understanding modern economics is a matter of becoming familiar with Kant’s interpretative forms of perception, judgment, and reason.

It will be vital reading for philosophers, economists, and others interested in these two critical professions.

(https://www.routledge.com/How-Economists-Think-A-Kantian-Interpretation-of-Mainstream-Economics/Buccola/p/book/9781032847122)

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