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• Title
• Copyright
• Dedicate
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Series Editor’s Preface
• List of Acronyms
• 1 Philosophy of Economics as Philosophy of Science
• 1.1 What is philosophy of science for?
• 1.2 Th e metaphysical context of economics
• 1.3 Economics and its neighbors: psychology and sociology
• 2 Economics and Its Neighbors before 1980
• 2.1 The pedagogy of economics versus better philosophy of economics
• 2.2 Marginalism
• 2.3 Subjective value and decision theory
• 2.4 After the marginalist revolution: economists retreat from psychology
• 2.5 Ordinalism
• 2.6 Revealed preference
• 2.7 Economic theory, general equilibrium and welfare analysis
• 2.8 A note on macroeconomics
• 3 The Expansion of the Economic Toolbox
• 3.1 The information age
• 3.2 The collapse of the Samuelsonian synthesis
• 3.3 The call for microfoundations of macroeconomics
• 3.4 Methodological individualism
• 3.5 Game theory
• 3.6 Solving games
• 3.7 Expected utility and risk preferences
• 3.8 Equilibria and subjective probability
• 3.9 Institutions and information asymmetry
• 3.10 Institutions and coordination
• 3.11 Institutions and commitment
• 3.12 Experimentation
• 3.13 A note on econometrics and computational tools
• 4 How Economics and Psychology Differ
• 4.1 Back to Jevons?
• 4.2 The rise of cognitive science and the eclipse of behaviorism
• 4.3 Biases, frames and prospects
• 4.4 Frugal heuristics
• 4.5 Preference construction
• 4.6 Architectures and mechanisms for bounded rationality: neuroeconomics
• 4.7 Intertemporal preference stability
• 4.8 Ecological rationality, externalism and the intentional stance
• 4.9 Neo-Samuelsonian economics summarized
• 5 Economics as a Social Science
• 5.1 The metaphysics of economic aggregation
• 5.2 Business cycles
• 5.3 The two driving forces of economic dynamics
• 5.4 Unifying economics and sociology
• 5.5 Team reasoning and conditional games
• 5.6 Descriptive anti-individualism and normative individualism
• References
• Index