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39Introduction to symposium on ‘reflexivity and economics: George Soros's theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science’Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (4): 303-308. 2013.No abstract
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38Karl Popper and Economic Methodology: A New LookEconomics and Philosophy 1 (1): 83-99. 1985.Discussions of Karl Popper's falsificationist philosophy of science appear regularly in the recent literature on economic methodology. In this literature, there seem to be two fundamental points of agreement about Popper. First, most economists take Popper's falsificationist method of bold conjecture and severe test to be the correct characterization of scientific conduct in the physical sciences. Second, most economists admit that economic theory fails miserably when judged by these same falsif…Read more
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38Economics and Laudan's normative naturalism: Bad news from instrumental rationality's front lineSocial Epistemology 10 (2). 1996.No abstract
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35Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science TheoryCambridge University Press. 2001.Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science. Professor Hands investigates economists' use of naturalistic and sociological paradigms to model economic phenomena and assesses the roles of pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness in discussions of economic practice before turning to a systematic exploration of more recent developments in economic methodology.…Read more
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33Introduction to symposium on the explanation paradoxJournal of Economic Methodology 20 (3). 2013.No abstract
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29Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (edited book)Edward Elgar Publishers. 2011.Practitioners in the vanguard of new economic thinking will also find plenty of useful information in this path-breaking book.
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28You want the social? You can’t handle the social! Mirowski on the secret history of scientific philosophyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (4): 726-733. 2005.
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27The Philosophy of Natural Science Takes an Economic Turn: Review of Philip Kitcher's The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 2 144-148. 1995.
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27Orthodox and heterodox economics in recent economic methodologyErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 8 (1): 61. 2015.This paper discusses the development of the field of economic methodology during the last few decades emphasizing the early influence of the "shelf" of Popperian philosophy and the division between neoclassical and heterodox economics. It argues that the field of methodology has recently adopted a more naturalistic approach focusing primarily on the "new pluralist" subfields of experimental economics, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and related subjects.
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27Restabilizing Dynamics: Construction and Constraint in the History of Walrasian Stability TheoryEconomics and Philosophy 10 (2): 243-283. 1994.InStabilizing Dynamics Roy Weintraub provides a history of stability theory from the work of Hicks and Samuelson in the late 1930s to the Gale and Scarf counterexamples in the 1960s. Unlike his earlier work in the history of general equilibrium theory this recent contribution is not an attempt to fit the Walrasian program into the narrow framework of some particular philosophy of natural science. Rather, the theme inStabilizing Dynamicsis broadly social constructivist. Simply put, the constructi…Read more
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25Introduction: economic methodology and philosophy of economics twenty years since the MillenniumJournal of Economic Methodology 28 (1): 1-2. 2021.The papers in this special symposium issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology advance a variety of perspectives on the current state and possible future development of economic methodology and...
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22Introduction to Symposium on Terence Hutchison and Economic MethodologyJournal of Economic Methodology 16 (3): 277-281. 2009.The article presents the author's perspectives regarding the book "The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory," by Terence Wilmot Hutchison. He emphasizes two important general themes that emerge from the symposium in total, the great breadth of Hutchison's contribution to economic methodology and a brief introduction on the four individual papers. He mentions some people including Roger Backhouse, John Hart and Ross Emmett as well as the comments of each about Hutchison's works.
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21Book Reviews: Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight. Volume 1: What Is Truth in Economics?, Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight. Volume 2: Laissez-Faire: Pro and Con (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (4): 590-593. 2004.
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17The Structuralist View of Economic Theories: A Review Essay: The Case of General Equilibrium in ParticularEconomics and Philosophy 1 (2): 303-335. 1985.
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15Piaget as a Visionary Thinker (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 19 (1): 113-114. 1988.
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13Review of Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss’ (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, xvi + 516 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (1). 2023.
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12Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection ReflectionsRevue de Philosophie Économique 20 (2): 221-252. 2020.
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10Introduction to symposium on ‘Patrick Suppes, economics, and economic methodology’Journal of Economic Methodology 23 (3): 237-240. 2016.
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10Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection ReflectionsRevue de Philosophie Économique 20 (2): 221-252. 2020.
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10Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic MethodologyRoman & Littlefield. 1993.This book brings together ten previously published essays on the philosophy of economics and economic methodology. The general theme is the application of Karl Popper's philosophy of science to economics -- not only by Popper himself but also by other members of the "Popperian school." There are three major issues that surface repeatedly: the applicability of Popper's falsificationist philosophy of science; the applicability of I. Lakatos's "methodology of scientific research programs" to econom…Read more
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10Reflecting on Three Reviews of Reflection Without RulesJournal of Economic Methodology 10 551-559. 2003.This paper is the author's response to three reviews of "Reflection Without Rules."
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917 The more things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studiesIn Uskali Mäki (ed.), Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction, Cambridge University Press. pp. 341. 2002.
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6History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics (edited book)Routledge. 2019.This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship. In recent decades, criticisms of mainstream economics have rekindled interest in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry that were frequently ignore…Read more
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4The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic AnalysisStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 88 (C): 209-219. 2021.
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3The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and EconomicsIn Uskali Mäki (ed.), Philosophy of Economics, Elsevier. pp. 219-39. 2012.
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3Priority Fights in Economic Science: Paradox and ResolutionPerspectives on Science 14 (2): 215-231. 2006.Eponymic honor is a common form of professional recognition in economics, as it is in other sciences. There also seems to be convincing evidence that individuals exposed to economic theory behave less cooperatively and more self-interestedly than individuals who have not been exposed to such economic ideas. Taken together these two facts would seem to suggest that the history of economic thought would be a history of rather contentious priority fights. If economists generally behave in self-inte…Read more
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Ad Hocness in Economics and Popperian PhilosophyIn Neil de Marchi (ed.), The Popperian Legacy in Economics and Beyond, Cambridge University Press. pp. 121-137. 1988.
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