Uni Jena
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl für Empirische und Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung

MW26.1 - Approaches to Economic Science (2010/11)

This lecture is part of the Master Program in Economics and given together with other members of the faculty of economics and business administration. On this page I describe only the topics covered in my part of the lecture.
Lecture
Wed., 10:15-11:45
Exercises
Thu., 16:15-17:45
Topics
  1. What is special about economics - the relation of economics to other sciences
  2. Theories and real life - what is more important for us?
  3. In which way can we lean something about the real life: theories, data from the field, experiments in the lab
  4. Messing things up - with which kind of errors do we have to cope in theories, in data from the field, in laboratory data?