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41Economics and the Philosophy of Science, Deborah A. Redman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, vii + 252 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 8 (2): 298-303. 1992.
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The individual in economic theory: hide and seek in the ontology of economics: A review of John B. Davis The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 12 (3): 476. 2005.
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12Restabilizing 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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863Conjectures and Reputations:The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic ThoughtHistory of Political Economy 29 695-739. 1997.
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50Introduction 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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18The 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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351The Sociology of Scientific Knowlege and Economics: Some Thoughts on the PossibilitiesIn Roger Backhouse (ed.), New Perspectives in Economic Methodology, Routledge. pp. 75-106. 1994.
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42Reflection 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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4585Philosophy and EconomicsIn S. N. Durlauf & L. E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave. pp. 410-420. 2008.
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987More light and less heat Mirowski on economics and the energy metaphorPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (1): 97-111. 1992.Review Article on Mirowski's More Heat Than Light (1989)
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Expert knowledge, Ersatz knowledge, and economics A review of Robert F. Garnett Jr (ed.) What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 7 (3): 449-453. 2000.
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941The structuralist view of economic theories: A review essay: The case of general equilibrium in particularEconomics and Philosophy 1 (2): 303-. 1985.
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1017 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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3The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and EconomicsIn Uskali Mäki, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard & John Woods (eds.), Philosophy of economics, North Holland. pp. 219-39. 2012.
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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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5722006 HES Presidential Address: A Tale of Two Mainstreams: Economics and Philosophy of Natural Science in the mid-Twentieth CenturyJournal of the History of Economic Thought 29 1-13. 2007.Abstract: The paper argues that mainstream economics and mainstream philosophy of natural science had much in common during the period 1945-1965. It examines seven common features of the two fields and suggests a number of historical developments that might help explain these similarities. The historical developments include: the Vienna Circle connection, the Samuelson-Harvard-Foundations connection, and the Cold War operations research connection.
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24Introduction 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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932Caveat emptor: Economics and contemporary philosophy of sciencePhilosophy of Science 64 (4): 116. 1997.The relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science has changed substantially during the last few years. What was once exclusively a one-way relationship from philosophy to economics now seems to be much closer to bilateral exchange. The purpose of this paper is to examine this new relationship. First, I document the change. Second, I examine the situation within contemporary philosophy of science in order to explain why economics might have its current appeal. Third, I cons…Read more
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72What economics is not: An economist's response to RosenbergPhilosophy of Science 51 (3): 495-503. 1984.Alexander Rosenberg (1983) has argued, contrary to his previous work in the philosophy of economics, that economics is not science, and it is merely mathematics. The following paper argues that Rosenberg fails to demonstrate either of these two claims. The questions of the predictive weakness of modern economics and the cognitive standing of abstract economic theory are discussed in detail
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69Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of ScienceDialogue 34 (3): 605-. 1995.
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632Popper, the Rationality Principle and Economic ExplanationIn G. K. Shaw (ed.), Economics, Culture, and Education: Essays in Honor of Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar. pp. 108-119. 1991.
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54Normative ecological rationality: normative rationality in the fast-and-frugal-heuristics research programJournal of Economic Methodology 21 (4): 396-410. 2014.The purpose of this paper is to examine the normative interpretation of the fast-and-frugal research program and in particular to contrast it with the normative reading of rational choice theory and behavioral economics. The ecological rationality of fast-and-frugal heuristics is admittedly a form of normative naturalism – it derives what agents “ought” to do from that which “is” ecologically rational – and the paper will examine how this differs from the normative rationality associated with ra…Read more
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122Foundations of Contemporary Revealed Preference TheoryErkenntnis 78 (5): 1081-1108. 2013.This paper examines methodological issues raised by revealed preference theory in economics: particularly contemporary revealed preference theory. The paper has three goals. First, to make the case that revealed preference theory is a broad research program in choice theory—not a single theory—and understanding this diversity is essential to any methodological analysis of the program. Second, to explore some of the existing criticisms of revealed preference theory in a way that emphasizes how th…Read more
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24Book 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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517Review Symposium : Douglas W. Hands G. C. Archibald Joseph Agassi On S. J. Latsis, ed. Method and Appraisal in Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 218. $17.50 The Methodology of Economic Research Programmes (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (3): 293-303. 1979.
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448The Problem of Excess Content: Economics, Novelty and a Long Popperian TaleIn Mark Blaug & Neil de Marchi (eds.), Appraising Economic Theories: Studies in the Methodology of Research Programs, Edward Elgar. pp. 58-75. 1991.The paper traces the sequence of events which brought Popperian philosophy (including Lakatos) to its position on the issues of excess content, novelty and scientific progress. The general approach is to analyze Popper's and Lakatos's positions on these issues as an appropriate response to a particular philosophical problem situation in which they found themselves. The paper closes with a discussion of how these issues relate to economics and economic methodology.
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488William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, by Harro Maas. Cambridge University Press, 2005, xxii+330 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 23 (2): 252-256. 2007.
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