Beschreibung:
This collection recognizes Suppes's contributions to economics and economic methodology with a symposium of papers that examine, build on, and/or assess Suppes's research in these areas. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology.
1. Introduction to symposium on 'Patrick Suppes, economics, and economic methodology' 2. Patrick Suppes and game theory 3. Measurement theory and utility analysis in Suppes' early work, 1951-1958 4. Choice-based cardinal utility: a tribute to Patrick Suppes 5. Suppes' probabilistic theory of causality and causal inference in economics 6. Suppes's outlines of an empirical measurement theory 7. Freedom and choice in economics 8. The world in axioms: an interview with Patrick Suppes