Contents:

1. Introduction: The Changing Character of Economic Methodology
John B. Davis and D. Wade Hands

PART I: ECONOMICS OF BEHAVIOR AND CHOICE
2. Behavioral Economics
Floris Heukelom

3. Experimental Economics
Ana C. Santos

4. Neuroeconomics and Economic Methodology
Don Ross

5. High-Fidelity Economics
Anna Alexandrova and Daniel M. Haybron

PART II: WELFARE AND MICROECONOMIC POLICY
6. Current Trends in Welfare Measurement
Erik Angner

7. Happiness and Experienced Utility
Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta

8. Applied Policy, Welfare Economics, and Mill’s Half-Truths
David Colander

9. Economics as Usual: Geographical Economics Shaped by Disciplinary Conventions
Uskali Mäki and Caterina Marchionni

PART III: COMPLEXITY AND COMPUTATION IN ECONOMICS
10. Computational Economics
Paola Tubaro

11. Agent-based Modeling: The Right Mathematics for the Social Sciences?
Paul L. Borrill and Leigh Tesfatsion

12. Computing in Economics
K. Vela Velupillai and Stefano Zambelli

PART IV: EVOLUTION AND EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
13. A Philosophical Perspective on Contemporary Evolutionary Economics
Geoffrey M. Hodgson

14. Economics in a Cultural Key: Complexity and Evolution Revisited
Kurt Dopfer

15. Heterogeneous Economic Evolution: A Different View on Darwinizing Evolutionary Economics
Jack Vromen

PART V: MACROECONOMICS
16. Recent Developments in Macroeconomics: The DSGE Approach to Business Cycles in Perspective
Pedro Garcia Duarte

17. On the Role of Theory and Evidence in Macroeconomics
Katarina Juselius

18. Methodological Issues in Keynesian Macroeconomics
Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman

19. The Dismal State of Macroeconomics and the Opportunity for a New Beginning
L. Randall Wray

PART VI: THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION, THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC
20. The Spontaneous Methodology of Orthodoxy, and Other Economists’ Afflictions in the Great Recession
Philip Mirowski

21. Invasion of the Bloggers: A Preliminary Study on the Demography and Content of the Economic Blogosphere
Tiago Mata

Index

About the Author

Edited by John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and D. Wade Hands, Professor of Economics, University of Puget Sound, US and co-editor, Journal of Economic Methodology

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