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30Elgar 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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28Introduction: 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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51Introduction: Methodology, systemic risk, and the economics professionJournal of Economic Methodology 20 (1). 2013.(2013). Introduction: Methodology, systemic risk, and the economics profession. Journal of Economic Methodology: Vol. 20, Methodology, Systemic Risk, and the Economics Profession, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1080/1350178X.2013.774842
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15Piaget as a Visionary Thinker (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 19 (1): 113-114. 1988.
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14Review 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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5The 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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7History, 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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13Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection ReflectionsRevue de Philosophie Économique 20 (2): 221-252. 2020.
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15Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection ReflectionsRevue de Philosophie Économique 20 (2): 221-252. 2020.
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54Derivational robustness, credible substitute systems and mathematical economic models: the case of stability analysis in Walrasian general equilibrium theoryEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 6 (1): 31-53. 2016.This paper supports the literature which argues that derivational robustness can have epistemic import in highly idealized economic models. The defense is based on a particular example from mathematical economic theory, the dynamic Walrasian general equilibrium model. It is argued that derivational robustness first increased and later decreased the credibility of the Walrasian model. The example demonstrates that derivational robustness correctly describes the practices of a particular group of …Read more
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28Orthodox 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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49Blurred boundaries: Recent changes in the relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural scienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 751-772. 1994.
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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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70Reconsidering the received view of the 'Received View': Kant, Kuhn, and the demise of positivist philosophy of scienceSocial Epistemology 17 (2-3): 169-173. 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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419Priority 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-in…Read more
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461The logical reconstruction of pure exchange economics: Another alternativeTheory and Decision 19 (3): 259-278. 1985.
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300Metaphysics, Economics and Progress: A Comment on Glass and JohnsonBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (2): 241-244. 1992.
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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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348The 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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4554Philosophy 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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40Reflection 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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981More 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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932The 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 (ed.), Philosophy of Economics, Elsevier. pp. 219-39. 2012.
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5692006 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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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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