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  • Dionysian economics[electronic resource] :making economics a scientific social science /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 330
    書名/作者: Dionysian economics : making economics a scientific social science // by Benjamin Ward.
    作者: Ward, Benjamin.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan US :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xix, 283 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Economics.
    標題: Economics - Philosophy.
    標題: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
    標題: Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
    標題: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics/Financial Economics.
    ISBN: 9781137597366
    ISBN: 9781137597359
    摘要、提要註: Nietzsche distinguished between two forces in art: Apollonian, which represents order and reason, and Dionysian, which represents chaos and energy. An ideal work of art combines these two characteristics in a believable, relatable balance. Economists, Ward argues, have operated for too long under the assumption that their work reflects scientific, Apollonian principals when these simply do not or cannot apply: "constants" in economics stand in for variables, mathematical equations represent the simplified ideal rather than the complex reality, and the core scientific principal of replication is all but ignored. In Dionysian Economics, Ward encourages economists to reintegrate the standard rigor of the scientific method into their work while embracing the fact that their prime indicators come from notoriously chaotic and changeable human beings. Rather than emphasizing its shortfalls compared to an extremely Apollonian science, such as physics, economics can aspire to the standards of a science that accounts for considerable Dionysian variation, such as biology. The book proposes that economists get closer to their dynamic objects of study, that they avoid the temptation to wish away dynamic complexity by using simplifying assumptions, and that they recognize the desire to take risks as fundamentally human.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137597366
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