Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?

by Alex Rosenberg

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Economics today cannot predict the likely outcome of specific events any better than it could in the time of Adam Smith. This is Alexander Rosenberg's controversial challenge to the scientific status of economics. Rosenberg explains that the defining characteristic of any science is predictive improvability--the capacity to create more precise forecasts by evaluating the success of earlier predictions--and he forcefully argues that because economics has not been able to increase its predictive power for over two centuries, it is not a science.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226727238

ISBN13:9780226727233

Release Date:October 1992

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:283 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Business Business & Investing Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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