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Well, there's some low-hanging fruit in that article. What branches of economics do rest on scientific rigor?
by CamperBob 16y ago
Well, there's some low-hanging fruit in that article. What branches of economics do rest on scientific rigor?
- borism 16y agotrue, there are a lot of axioms in many branches of economics that noone is allowed to touch, some have more, some have less. But AFAIK nowhere as much as in Austrian School today.
- nl 16y agoPlenty. The most obvious and best known recent example is game theory, which John Nash famously won the Economics Nobel for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash The 1947 book "Foundations of Economic Analysis" is worth looking at. The table of contents - replicated in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Economic_Analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Economic_Analysi...) - will give you a good starting point.