Can Economic Theory Explain Everything?

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1979, Pages 509-529

  Rosenberg, Alexander ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84970700426     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004839317900900409     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Sir John Hicks, Value and Capital, Oxford 1939, p. 34. Marshall described the concern of economics as the actions of the representative agent. Cf. Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, New York 1948, for example, p. 314.
2. Milton Friedman, Essays in Positive Economics, Chicago 1953.
3. William Riker and Peter Ordeshook, Introduction to Positive Political Theory, Englewood Cliffs 1973.
4. Indeed the empirical findings continue to tell against the conventional expositions of the theory of the behaviour of the firm and the consumer. For recent studies, cf. A. Rappaport and T. S. Wallsten, ‘Individual Decision Behaviour’, Annual Review of Psychology, 23, 131-76.
5. Gordon Tullock, ‘Economic Imperialism’, in Buchanan and Tollison (eds.), The Theory of Public Choice, Ann Arbor 1972, pp. 321-24.
6. Gary S. Becker, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, Chicago 1976. All page references in the text hereafter are to this work.
7. Cf., for example, Thorstein Veblen, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays, New York 1932, p. 73.