Economic means and social ends : essays in political economics / by Adolph Lowe [and others], edited—and with an introduction—by Robert L. Heilbroner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1969.Description: ix, 204 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0132268604
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.15
LOC classification:
  • HB 71 .E25 1969
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Toward a science of political economics / Adolph Lowe --
2. Social science and natural science: methodological reflections on Lowe's "On Economic Knowledge" / Aron Gurwitsch --
3. Method in social and natural science / Ernest Nagel --
4. Economic knowledge and the critique of goals / Hans Jonas --
5. Ends, commitments, and the place of ignorance / Abraham Edel --
6. Positive and normative economics: an analysis of the ideas / Fritz Machlup --
7. on instrumental analysis / Abba P. Lerner --
8. Model makers and decision makers: economists and the policy process / Carl Kaysen --
9. Instrumental analysis and the decisional process: a critique / Henry C. Wallich --
10. Economic means and social ends: a rejoinder / Adolph Lowe.
Summary: "In this unusual—indeed unique—book, a group of leading economists and philosophers jointly examine the present condition of economic science, both as regards its claim to be a science and as regards its applicability to contemporary problems, In successive essays he nature and limits of economic reasoning and inquiry are subjected to a searching scrutiny from many points of view, philosophical as well as economic. Much of the discussion focuses on the central contention of Professor Lowe that economics, as it is presently constituted, requires a thoroughgoing reorientation if its relevance for policy-making is once again to be established. Lowe's proposals for an 'instrumental' economics are both criticized and supported, with the result that economics is exposed to a profound and illuminating critique, from the viewpoint of theory as well as that of policy." -- From the back cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HB 71 .E25 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Some highlighting of text. NPML20020007

Papers presented at the Adolph Lowe symposia held at the New School for Social Research in Feb. and Mar. 1968. Contains list of symposia participants.

1. Toward a science of political economics / Adolph Lowe --

2. Social science and natural science: methodological reflections on Lowe's "On Economic Knowledge" / Aron Gurwitsch --

3. Method in social and natural science / Ernest Nagel --

4. Economic knowledge and the critique of goals / Hans Jonas --

5. Ends, commitments, and the place of ignorance / Abraham Edel --

6. Positive and normative economics: an analysis of the ideas / Fritz Machlup --

7. on instrumental analysis / Abba P. Lerner --

8. Model makers and decision makers: economists and the policy process / Carl Kaysen --

9. Instrumental analysis and the decisional process: a critique / Henry C. Wallich --

10. Economic means and social ends: a rejoinder / Adolph Lowe.

"In this unusual—indeed unique—book, a group of leading economists and philosophers jointly examine the present condition of economic science, both as regards its claim to be a science and as regards its applicability to contemporary problems, In successive essays he nature and limits of economic reasoning and inquiry are subjected to a searching scrutiny from many points of view, philosophical as well as economic. Much of the discussion focuses on the central contention of Professor Lowe that economics, as it is presently constituted, requires a thoroughgoing reorientation if its relevance for policy-making is once again to be established. Lowe's proposals for an 'instrumental' economics are both criticized and supported, with the result that economics is exposed to a profound and illuminating critique, from the viewpoint of theory as well as that of policy." -- From the back cover.

Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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