Marking Time: Marshall's Search for Narrative Explanatory Coherence

نویسندگان

چکیده

Abstract It is well known that Marshall had great difficulty in organizing his work after the Principles. The promised second volume never came, and for books eventually were published, Industry Trade (1919) Money, Credit, Commerce (1923), was at pains to find right mode of expression research. In introduction Principles, explained reliance on partial equilibrium analysis and, more generally, ceteris paribus reasoning as natural method economist, which diagrams an excellent fit. But already while working Principles moved closer economic history. a letter June 1879 Jevons, he praised Jevons's statistical important step “‘real’-ising” abstract theories economists, follow suit. However, Jevons tried flesh out mathematical relations captured causalities hidden data, started explore different strategy, strategy explains criticism “mathematico-statistics” waning away initial enthusiasm engine discovery. Instead relying method, would examine one causal factor time, searched approach economy encompassing whole. A shorthand this famous epigraph Trade: “The many one, many.” Moving from opposition between theory facts, develop mediates generic categories economist specific events history are domain historian. contrast with embraced incomplete improved by adding factors, explored what article calls narrative how integrate manifold heterogeneous factors into unified whole, thus providing coherence complete chronology events. purpose my contribution issue development substance strategy. This will use Marshall's cartographies time entry point understand take explanation facts

برای دانلود باید عضویت طلایی داشته باشید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Probabilistic Networks and Explanatory Coherence

Causal reasoning can be understood qualitatively in terms of explanatory coherence or quantitatively in terms of probability theory. Comparison of these approaches can be done by looking at computational models, using my explanatory coherence networks and Pearl’s probabilistic ones. The explanatory coherence program ECHO can be given a probabilistic interpretation, but there are many conceptual...

متن کامل

Thagard Testimony , Credibility , and Explanatory Coherence

This paper develops a descriptive and normative account of how people respond to testimony. It postulates a default pathway in which people more or less automatically respond to a claim by accepting it, as long as the claim made is consistent with their beliefs and the source is credible. Otherwise, people enter a reflective pathway in which they evaluate the claim based on its explanatory cohe...

متن کامل

Marking time

Next, we discuss the point-based and interval-based versions of time. These were studied in Johan van Benthem’s book The logic of time and in several papers appearing around the same time: Vilain [1982], and Allen [1983], developed an interval algebra; Moszkowski and Manna [1983], as well as Schwartz, Melliar-Smith and Vogt [1983], advocated interval-based reasoning for hardware. The prohibitiv...

متن کامل

Explanatory Coherence as a Model for Belief Revision

A belief system is an AI system which is concerned with the structural representation of beliefs, updating belief sets, reasoning with beliefs and the interaction between beliefs. A cognitive model of belief should be able to account for all of these things, and the subproblems which one encounters along the way. Several diierent approaches have been taken to solve various speciic problems for ...

متن کامل

Real-Time Self-Explanatory Simulation

We present Pika, an implemented self-explanatory simulator that is more than 5000 times faster than SimGen Mk2 [ Forbus and Falkenhainer, 1992 ] , the previous state of the art. Like SimGen, Pika automatically prepares and runs a numeric simulation of a physical device speci ed as a particular instantiation of a general domain theory, and it is capable of explaining its reasoning and the simula...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: History of Political Economy

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1527-1919', '0018-2702']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10438869