Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-v2bm5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-28T23:15:42.290Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The invisible hand in economics: How economists explain unintended social consequences, N. Emrah Aydinonat, Routledge, 2008, xvi + 258 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Anna Alexandrova
Anna Alexandrova*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri – Saint Louis
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Reviews
Information
Economics & Philosophy , Volume 25 , Issue 3: Economics and Philosophy on Ambiguity Aversion , November 2009 , pp. 371 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Cartwright, N. 1989. Nature's capacities and their measurement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Cartwright, N. 1998. Capacities. In The Handbook of Economic Methodology, ed. Davis, J. B., Hands, D. W., and Mäki, U., 45–8. London: Edward Elgar.Google Scholar
Cartwright, N. 2009. If no capacities, then no credible worlds: but can models reveal capacities? Erkenntnis 70: 45–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hausman, D. 1992. The inexact and separate science of economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maki, U. 1992. On the method of isolation in economics. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 26: 319–54.Google Scholar
Sugden, R. 2000. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics. Journal of Economic Methodology 7: 1–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sugden, R. 2009. Credible worlds, capacities and mechanisms. Erkenntnis 70: 3–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar