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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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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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48Introduction: 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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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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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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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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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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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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53Derivational 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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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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48Blurred 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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418Priority 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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446The 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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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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67Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of ScienceDialogue 34 (3): 605-. 1995.
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592Popper, 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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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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483Review 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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433The 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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490William 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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354Introspection, Revealed Preference and Neoclassical Economics: A Critical Response to Don Ross on the Robbins-Samuelson Argument PatternJournal of the History of Economic Thought 30 1-26. 2008.Abstract: Don Ross’ Economic Theory and Cognitive Science (2005) provides an elaborate philosophical defense of neoclassical economics. He argues that the central features of neoclassical theory are associated with what he calls the Robbins-Samuelson argument pattern and that it can be reconciled with recent developments in experimental and behavioral economics, as well as contemporary cognitive science. This paper argues that Ross’ Robbins-Samuelson argument pattern is not in the work of either…Read more
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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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