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Experts and Epistemic Monopolies.
Title:
Experts and Epistemic Monopolies.
Author:
Koppl, Roger.
ISBN:
9781781902172
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Series:
Advances in Austrian Economics ; v.17

Advances in Austrian Economics
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- EXPERTS AND EPISTEMIC MONOPOLIES -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER 1 SPEAKING OF EXPERTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 OPENING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 3 IF GERMS COULD SPONSOR RESEARCH: REFLECTIONS ON SYMPATHETIC CONNECTIONS AMONG SUBJECTS AND RESEARCHERS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHOM TO DO THE RESEARCH? -- ''RACKET'' -- SYMPATHETIC BIAS -- ECONOMICS TEXTBOOKS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 CLASH OF THE TITANS: WHEN THE MARKET AND SCIENCE COLLIDE -- INTRODUCTION -- A CONTESTED HAYEK -- SCIENCE AS A SPONTANEOUS ORDER -- EXTENDING COGNITIVE SYSTEMS -- A CLASH OF CULTURES -- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING AND THE CULTURE OF OPEN ACCESS -- THE KNOWLEDGE HUB FOR PATHOLOGY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 EXPERTISE AND THE CONDUCT OF MONETARY POLICY -- EXPERTISE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM -- EXPERTISE, MONOPOLY, AND MONETARY POLICY -- ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS OF EXPERTISE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES: EXPERTS IN P. T. BAUER'S WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE -- EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN P. T. BAUER'S WORK -- THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS AND POLICY EFFECTIVENESS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 EXPERTS AND ENTREPRENEURS -- INTRODUCTION -- KIRZNERIAN ALERTNESS -- TWO TYPES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- THE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEUR -- ENTREPRENEURS ARE TYPICALLY NOT MASTERS OF CURRENT THEORY -- SOME IMPORTANT VARIETIES OF NONTHEORETICAL OR PRE-THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE -- LOCAL, PARTICULAR, AND SERENDIPITOUS KNOWLEDGE -- TACIT KNOWLEDGE -- GRADUAL CLARIFICATION OF INITIALLY INCHOATE INTUITION.

INNOVATION IS OFTEN ENHANCED BY RAPID, FREQUENT EXPERIMENTATION -- FINANCING ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 A RACE TO THE TOP: ENABLING JURIES TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS WHEN CONFRONTED WITH FORENSIC EVIDENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- FORENSIC SCIENCE AND THE PERSUASION GAME -- EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY AND NULLIFICATION -- DECISION-MAKER COMPETENCE AND AN EXTENDED PERSUASION GAME -- SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 EXPERTS AND INFORMATION CHOICE -- INTRODUCTION -- MOTIVATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS OF INFORMATION CHOICE THEORY -- THE ECOLOGY OF EXPERTISE -- THEORY OF EXPERT FAILURE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 MODEL UNCERTAINTY AND EMPIRICAL POLICY ANALYSIS IN ECONOMICS: A SELECTIVE REVIEW -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMETRICS -- DECISION MAKING WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF PROBABILITIES -- RADICAL UNCERTAINTY -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12 SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM OF FACTION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- A LIBERAL REMEDY: SCHOLARLY ETHICS AS CONSTITUTIONAL CITIZENSHIP -- TWO COMMON OBJECTIONS -- SCHOOLS, NOT SECTS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13 NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN? THE DIALECTIC OF PRUDENCE AND JUSTICE IN THE MODERN ERA -- INTRODUCTION -- IN SEARCH OF THE ROOTS OF FREE MARKETS ECONOMICS -- FORGOTTEN PERSPECTIVES ON THE DILEMMA OF SOCIAL JUSTICE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
Under what conditions of supply and demand are experts likely to give us good advice? When is expert failure more likely? Do entrepreneurs challenge existing expertise? Are they experts themselves? This title brings a heterogeneous collection of thinkers, some "Austrian" and to engage the problem of experts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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