Titlebook: Economic Theories and their Relational Structures; A Model-Theoretic Ch Erwin Klein Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan P

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Model-Theoretic Toolkitsion of semantics called .. These model-theoretic concepts are applied here often in a rather informal way and will be described only for the sake of completeness. One such basic concept is that of a .; another is that of a ..

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Theoretical Economicsctive’ nature of the ‘system’ is meant here to forewarn that a purely descriptive account of a phenomenon, historical or statistical, would by itself not qualify as a theory no matter how important it may be as a potential or actual source or motivation for theoretical activity.

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A Taxonomy of Economic Theories Based upon Intended Epistemological Status and Pragmatic Functionntiated cognitive and operative functions. The main purpose of Part II is to devise and illustrate a classification of economic theories that would serve as a framework tentatively to accommodate the main results of this study to be developed in detail in Parts III and IV. The suggested taxonomy cri

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General Characterizationinterested in providing a description of the process through which an economic theory is given empirical meaning, and then in ways of characterizing the class of empirical economic statements and theories. To do this we continue using our basic model-theoretic tools of analysis.

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Representational Theories and Theoretical Systems (I): Basic or General Theory and General-Class Thelogical one, provides an interpretative explanation of the object it refers to. Such an explanation goes beyond the description of the outward relations between two sets of variables — the . and the . — to supply a representation of the hypothesized inward mechanism which determines the working of t

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Phenomenological Theories and Theoretical Systems (II): Data-Contingent Theoryf morphologically simple, and the data-specific theory ., the formal language that accounts for a concrete empirical structure. As a bridge between . and . we encounter the concrete (dataconform) theory, simply a specialized and redesigned version of the generic theory to meet the requirements of a

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Methodology of Non-Experimental Economic Research (II): Cognitive Functions of Non-Intendedly Empiriart III. However, they face the handicap of being only seldom able to subject those theories to experimental control. Usually, economic processes cannot be ‘caused to occur on demand’ and variables, parameters, and structural settings cannot be manipulated ‘under specially controlled conditions’. He

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Book 1998n foundations research the author aims three targets, namely, a characterization of the notion ‘empirical economic theory‘, the determination of the epistemological and methodological status of an important class of ‘non-empirical‘ theories in economics, and the proposal of a taxonomy of economic th