STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Economics book chapters and sections.
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Electronic copies of Economics book chapters and sections.2024-03-21T00:44:48ZEuropean Football After COVID-19
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35821
Title: European Football After COVID-19
Author(s): Reade, J. James; Singleton, Carl
Editor(s): Billio, Monica; Varotto, Simone
Abstract: The European football industry has suffered an unprecedented shock from COVID-19. In this chapter, we reflect on how the sport’s administrators responded to the initial outbreaks and what lessons can be learned. We also look ahead to what football in the post-COVID-19 era could look like. We conclude that this largely depends on the decisions now facing the sport’s administrators and the powerful owners of the biggest football clubs: will they prioritise football as the inclusive and diverse game, at the heart of local communities? Or will their intrinsic financial interests dominate?2020-01-01T00:00:00ZUnification and Pluralism
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34887
Title: Unification and Pluralism
Author(s): Dow, Sheila
Editor(s): Caldwell, Bruce; Davis, John; Mäki, Uskali; Sent, Esther-Mirjam
Abstract: Wade Hands has drawn attention to the explanatory pluralism present in Samuelson’s Foundations alongside its derivational unification. The purpose here is to pursue this analysis in relation to the unificationist and pluralist discourses in economics. A consideration of Samuelson’s philosophy of science suggests the presence of a degree of pluralism in other domains than explanation. But a broader discussion of the meanings of, and justifications for, both unification and pluralism indicates that derivational unification limits the admissibility of, and scope for, pluralism in other domains. This analysis is then applied to current debates over the future direction of mainstream macroeconomics.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZKeynes on theorising for policy
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34886
Title: Keynes on theorising for policy
Author(s): Dow, Sheila
Editor(s): Drakopoulos, Stavros; Katselidis, Ioannis
Abstract: Keynes made a unique contribution to thought about economic policy in three important respects. First, he spearheaded a new line of thought on macroeconomic theory and policy-making which involved a more active role for the state. Second, he was actively engaged at the centre of economic policy-making in the UK in both the domestic and international spheres. Third drawing on his work in philosophy, the content of his macroeconomics and his experience of policy-making, Keynes developed a distinctive, two-stage, approach to the relationship between theory and policy. This chapter focuses on this third aspect, illustrating it by exploring how Keynes addressed issues such as domestic and international monetary reform. It is argued that Keynes’s methodology as a theorist was geared to facilitating policy application. Employing practical reason, Keynes paid particular attention to policy context in order to identify how theory might need to be modified for application rather than seeking universal application. In a further departure from the emerging positivism in economics Keynes kept on the surface the nature and implications of his political philosophy and also the role of social institutions.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe methodological role of the history of economic thought
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33132
Title: The methodological role of the history of economic thought
Author(s): Dow, Sheila
Editor(s): Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina; Deleplace, Ghislain; Paesani, Paolo
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological role of the history of thought in economic theorising. The connection is drawn between Adam Smith’s use of the history of ideas for his own theorising on the one hand and his espousal of the Newtonian experimental method on the other. The history of ideas formed an important part of the evidential base. On this basis, the argument is then developed that study of the history of economic thought contributes to the modern development of theory within a pluralist, open-system approach. Further the significance of different approaches to history itself is highlighted both for understanding Smith and for considering modern debates about the history of thought. The paper is thus offered as further support for the important role for the history of economic thought in economic teaching and practice.2020-01-01T00:00:00Z