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  • Total Per Cent Lambing Rules

    by Thomas Boylan ...
    "Total Per Cent Lambing Rules" by Thomas Boylan is a comprehensive guide that delves into the intricacies of sheep farming, particularly focusing on lambing practices. The book provides valuable insights into optimizing lambing percentages, which is crucial for farmers aiming to enhance productivity and profitability. Boylan shares practical techniques and strategies that can be implemented on ... Read more

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  • Total Per Cent Lambing Rules

    Optimizing Lambing Rates: A Practical Guide for Sheep Farmers

    by Thomas Boylan ...
    In "Total Per Cent Lambing Rules," Thomas Boylan delves into the intricate dynamics of sheep husbandry, particularly focusing on optimizing lambing rates and livestock management. Utilizing a didactic yet approachable tonal quality, Boylan blends empirical data with practical insights, drawing upon both traditional practices and contemporary advancements in agricultural science. The book serves ... Read more

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  • Popper and Economic Methodology

    Contemporary Challenges

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman ...
    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A History of Irish Economic Thought

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, John Turner ...
    Series series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
    For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken.In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

    The Propagation and Ideological Functions of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century

    by Thomas Boylan, Tadhg Foley ...
    `I believe that next to good Religious education, a sound knowledge of Political Economy would tend as much to tranquilize this country, if not more, than any other branch of knowledge that can be taught in schools.' - Cork Schools Inspector, 1853In a nineteenth century Ireland that was divided socially, economically, politically and denominationally, consensus was sought in the new discipline of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics

    Towards a Reformulation of Methodology

    by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions and equality. Thomas Boylan and Ruvin Gekker have gathered essays that reflect this trend.The ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Hahn and Economic Methodology

    by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising is distinctive with respect to four dimensions. Firstly, the aim of economic theory is neither to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Economics and Reality

    by Tony Lawson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

    by Jason Glynos, David Howarth ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post ... Read more

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  • Being Realistic about Reasons

    by T. M. Scanlon ...
    T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if ... Read more

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  • Realism Discourse and Deconstruction

    Edited by Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understanding of the conceptual aspect of social life and the processes by which meaning is produced. This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of ... Read more

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