Unmeasured information and the methodology of social scientific inquiry / by Donald W. Katzner
- Bib ID:
- 1060931
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Katzner, Donald W. (Donald Wahl), 1938-
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- Description:
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- Boston, Mass. ; London : Kluwer Academic, c2001
- viii, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0792374126
- 0792374118
- 0792373367
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface. 1. Introduction: Science, Social Science, and Measurement. Part 1: Methodology. 2. Our Mad Rush to Measure: How Did We Get into this Mess? 3. In Defense of Formalization in Economics. 4. On Not Quantifying the Non-Quantifiable. 5. Notions of Closeness in a Non-Quantifiable Setting. 6.The Role of Formalism in Economic Thought, with Illustration Drawn from the Analysis of Social Interaction in the Firm. 7. Institutionally Determined Parameters in Economic Equations 8. The Misuse of Measurement in Economics 9. Analysis with Ordinal Measurement. Part II: Applications. 10. Effort and Efficiency in the Neoclassical Finn 11. The Efficiency of Organizational Forms. 12. Attitudes, Rationality, and Consumer Demand. 13. Political Structure and System and the Notion of Logical Completeness. 14. The Formal Structure of Argument in Professor Apter s. Choice and the Politics of Allocation. Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Social sciences -- Methodology
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gros, X. E. (Xavier Emanuel), 1968-
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