Economics as an Empirical Social Science - 9783658451226

Economics as an Empirical Social ScienceAn Inventory\nAuthor(s): Daniel Weibrodt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Germany\nImprint: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden\nISBN-13: 9783658451226, 978-3658451226\nSynopsis\nEconomics still adheres entirely unreflectively to a mechanistic worldview and machine thinking. Epistemologically, it thus remains in the 19th century, and its assumptions and theories, methods, and models therefore stand in stark contradiction to the findings of all other social and natural sciences as well as a multitude of empirical facts.\n\nThrough a discourse-analytical examination of sixteen basic concepts in economics, based on twelve standard economics textbooks, their ideahistorical origin and use are worked out and compared and related to the current state of knowledge of other disciplines. This reveals the structural, methodological, and content errors of economics in a clear manner.\n\nEspecially for critical students, who have longs