Greetings Economists,
On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
Balzac, for
instance, who is represented as someone "who so thoroughly studied
every shade of avarice," is cited as insightful about the different
roles played by "hoarding" in "childhood" and mature forms of
avarice; he "repre
On 4-Aug-07, at 10:27 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Greetings Economists,
On Aug 4, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
How can econometric methods be used to test whether this treatment of
capitalist individuality and its historical development is realistic?
Doyle;
Well graph theory (see Erdos)
Greetings Economists,
On Aug 4, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
How can econometric methods be used to test whether this treatment of
capitalist individuality and its historical development is realistic?
Doyle;
Well graph theory (see Erdos) is amendable to metrics. Further if you
referen
Gil Skillman wrote:
all of applied (at least micro) mainstream economics,which is pretty
much entirely based on methodological individualism, and which
routinely
and massively yields testable predictions that are then brought to the
data via more or less rigorous econometric tests. Of course th
thanks, Gil.
On 8/3/07, Gil Skillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm reposting this, hoping for an answer. In economics, what uses does
> > methodological individualism have in the actual attempt to understand
> > the world (that is, beyond mere ideology)? I can think of two so far:
> >
> > 1)
> I'm reposting this, hoping for an answer. In economics, what uses does
> methodological individualism have in the actual attempt to understand
> the world (that is, beyond mere ideology)? I can think of two so far:
>
> 1) the free rider or collective action problem: it's really hard for a
> group
Subject:
query: methodological individualism
OK, here's my take on this:
Other than appealing to the more canonical methods that heterodox econ
addresses, I would suggest that Lawson's approach to "empirical and
underlying social ontology" would suggest that we can still use some (
not all ) for
