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100	1		_aBERGMANN, Barbara R. _91056
245	1	0	_aThe current state of economics : _bneeds lots of work
260			_aThousand Oaks : _bSAGE, _cJuly 2005
520	3		_aThe study of the economy has not developed as have other sciences, in which direct observation and data collection by the scientists themselves play a large part. Rather than evidence, which is mostly scarce and indirect, it is political ideology that determines which side of any controversy any economist is likely to take. Two methodological habits of the economics profession have contributed to the poor state of development of economics as a science. One is theorizing based on simple made-up scenarios and assumptions about human cupidity and rationality. The other is the lack of a rigorous connection between the modeling of the macroeconomy and an empirically based description of the behavior of consumers, firms, banks, and individual markets. This article provides a brief discussion of the work of those economists doing systematic observation of economic actors and an assessment of whether their work will lead toward an economics that is empirically based.
773	0	8	_tThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science _g600, p. 52 - 67 _dThousand Oaks : SAGE, July 2005 _xISSN 00027162 _w
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998			_a20060321 _b1525^b _cNatália
998			_a20100803 _b1241^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c15006 _d15006
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