Economic policy-making under uncertainty : the role of truth and accountability in policy advice / edited by Peter Mooslechner, Helene Schuberth, Martin Schürz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Peter Mooslechner, Helene Schuberth and Martin Schurz -- 1. Economic policy under uncertainty : the role of truth and accountability in policy advice / Peter Mooslechner, Helene Schuberth and Martin Schurz -- 2. Some truths about truth for economists and their critics and clients / Uskali Maki -- 3. Deliberative democracy as an institutional mode of inquiry : pragmatism, social facts and normative theory / James Bohman -- 4. Communicative rationality as the basis of economic science : contextualist implications of the pragmatic turn in critical social theory / William Rehg -- 5. The role of truth in economic policy advice / Gebhard Kirchgassner -- 6. Philosophical concepts of truth in economic policy advice / Martin Schurz.

"Economic Policy under Uncertainty maintains that the question of truth and accountability has not received particular attention in the literature on economic methodology. It goes on to argue that pragmatic theories relate concepts of truth to the beliefs, thoughts and intentional actions of individuals, blurring the relationship between theory and practice." "Exploring real-world difficulties encountered in giving and receiving economic policy advice, this book will be of great interest to economists who wish to reflect on the stance of their discipline, philosophers with an interest in economic issues and economic policy advisers considering the particularities of their subject."--Jacket.