Titlebook: Rules for Scientific Research in Economics; The Alpha-Beta Metho Adolfo Figueroa Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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The Alpha-Beta Method and Other Methods,of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Karl Popper. However, they are not the only known epistemologies. There are others, which are examined in this chapter: deductivism, inductivism, and interpretive. However, scientific research methods cannot be logically derived from each. Interpretive epistemology i

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Fallacies in Scientific Argumentation,ogical argumentations about scientific knowledge in economics may constitute fallacies. The alpha-beta method is a logical system; therefore, it can help us uncover the fallacies in economic arguments. The most relevant fallacies about the economic process are discussed here, such as fallacies of co

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Comparing Economics and Natural Sciences,sents the main theories of physics and evolutionary biology, together with their methods for accepting or rejecting them. The conclusion is that alpha-beta method is not applicable to physics, but it is to evolutionary biology. The alpha-beta method is thus appropriate for sciences dealing with hype

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Conclusions,icated epistemology than physics. The book proposes a composite epistemology, the combination of the epistemologies of Karl Popper and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, to provide economics with such epistemological need. Then, the alpha-beta method is logically derived from the composite epistemology and

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The Economic Process,ifferent types of economic processes. In particular, special attention is given to the distinction between mechanical processes (which include static and dynamic) and evolutionary processes, and then to deterministic and stochastic processes. Finally, the process epistemology is extended to the other social sciences.

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Alpha-Beta: A Scientific Research Method,ns also show the causality relations implied by the theory: the effect of exogenous variables upon endogenous variables. The principles of the alpha-beta method will constitute the rules for scientific research in economics in later chapters.

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Falsifying Economic Theories (II),licit assumptions, are discussed. The chapter ends with a discussion about the nature of falsification in economics, in which three sets of assumptions are involved, those of economic theory, statistical theory, and empirical measurement, giving rise to the ..

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