The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences (Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology) - Tapa blanda

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Aydinonat, N. Emrah

 
9780415569545: The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences (Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology)
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ISBN 10: 0415569540 ISBN 13: 9780415569545
Editorial: Routledge, 2009

Sinopsis

This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand. The author explores the unintended social consequences implied by the invisible hand and discusses the mechanisms that bring about these consequences.
The book questions, examines and explicates the strengths and weaknesses of invisible-hand explanations concerning the emergence of institutions and macro-social structures, from a methodological and philosophical perspective. Aydinonat analyses paradigmatic examples of invisible-hand explanations such as Carl Menger’s ’Origin of Money’ and Thomas Schelling’s famous checkerboard model of residential segregation in relation to contemporary models of emergence of money and segregation. Based on this analysis, he provides a fresh look at the philosophical literature on models and explanation and develops a philosophical framework for interpreting invisible-hand type of explanations in economics and elsewhere. Finally, the author applies this framework to recent game theoretic models of institutions and outlines the way in which they should be evaluated.

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N. Emrah Aydinonat is Lecturer in philosophy of economics and economic growth at Ankara University, Turkey.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415569540
ISBN 13 
9780415569545
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
272
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ISBN 10:  041541783X ISBN 13:  9780415417839
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