The nature and significance of Lionel Robbins’ methodological individualism
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Lionel Robbins: Neoclassical Maximizer or Proto-praxeologist?
Austrian economists writing after the so-called Austrian revival of the 1970s have generally been dismissive of Lionel Robbins’s An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (Robbins 1932), denying it a significant role in shaping the modern praxeological paradigm in economics.1 Their attitude in this regard has been heavily influenced by the views of Israel Kirzner. Kirzner (197...
متن کاملMethodological Individualism and Generosity
Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...
متن کاملMeanings of Methodological Individualism
Advocacy of ‘methodological individualism’ is a widespread, especially among economists. However, the term is rarely defined with adequate precision and some crucial ambiguities are explored in this article. Among these is the commonplace ambivalence over whether explanations should be in terms of individuals alone, or in terms of individuals plus relations between them. It is shown that a grea...
متن کاملThe Economics of Generosity and Methodological Individualism
Development economists have superseded any necessity of using Arrow’s methodological individualism (MI) in focusing on cross-cultural, cross-national, or developmental economics. This study examines whether analysis of cross-cultural economic models might include a concept of economic generosity as a type of economic structuration that deviates from MI principles and is closer to what economist...
متن کاملRobbins as Innovator: the Contribution of an Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science
Lionel Robbins’s An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932) made at least three important contributions: (1) constructing a more modern, focused, and general definition of economics, which continues to inform the best contemporary practice, (2) exploring the legitimacy of, and relationship between, empirical and a priori analyses in economics, and (3) demonstrating the f...
متن کاملذخیره 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: EconomiA
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1517-7580
DOI: 10.1016/j.econ.2017.08.001