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Tables of Contents for Turbulence in Economics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
vii
1
List of tables
viii
1
Introduction
ix
PART ONE: THE EVOLUTIONARY METAPHORS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMICS
3
114
1 Introduction to Part One: Simplicity or Complexity
3
2
2 The Impasse of Positivism
5
23
3 Heirs of Positivism
28
21
4 The Economy of Metaphoric Innovation
49
27
5 Time for Evolution
76
25
6 Conclusion of Part One: Pertinent Impertinence
101
4
Notes of Part One
105
12
PART TWO: THE ROCKING HORSE
117
102
7 Introduction to Part Two: Simplicity from Complexity
117
3
8 The Rocking Horse: The Propagation-Impulse Metaphor for Business Cycle Theories
120
19
9 Premises and Implications of the Double Decomposition
139
32
10 New Criteria for the Classification of Theories: An Intermediate Balance Sheet
171
21
11 Conclusion of Part Two: Moving Away from the Perpetuum Mobile
192
16
Notes of Part Two
208
11
PART THREE: BOUNDED HERESIES
219
64
12 Introduction to Part Three: Disputed Interpretations
219
3
13 Schumpeter's Paradox
222
7
14 From Evolution to Evolutionism
229
18
15 From Bloomsbury to Cambridge and to Harvard
247
21
16 Conclusion of Part Three: Split Heritage
268
3
Notes of Part Three
271
12
PART FOUR: DR. PANGLOSS HUNTED BY THE SNARKS
283
56
17 Introduction to Part Four: Turbulence Again
283
3
18 Uneasy Feelings
286
8
19 Order Out of Disorder
294
8
20 The Crucial Dependency of the Answers on the Questions
302
9
21 The Aggregative Effects of Aggregation in Economic Time Series
311
6
22 The Problem of Heteroscedasticity
317
4
23 Reconsiderations on the Rocking Horse: The Vanishing Property of the Errors
321
7
24 Conclusion of Part Four: The Snark was a Boojum
328
5
Notes of Part Four
333
6
CONCLUSION: COMPLEXITY, THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD
339
20
25 The Complex under the Simple
339
19
Notes of the Conclusion
358
1
References
359
22
Index
381