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49Normative 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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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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427The 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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480Review 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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