Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

of the growing influence of his vulgarized economics. An examination of his methods discovers deficiencies of the … lacks a genuine theory of the state and a truly consistent explanation of inequalities of power. So his programme of reforms …

in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …

a theory disregarded because of an apparent disconfirmation. In economics there is, broadly speaking, nothing like a … use of mathematics, the relationship between economic theory and applied economics as well as other methodological issues …The aim of this article is to review some central ideas on economic methodology. Many people doubt whether economics …

represented by Lawrence R. Klein, and the statistical economics program represented by Milton Friedman. I argue that the …

Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

The state of contemporary economics had been a subject of discussion even before the most recent global financial …. Nevertheless, there is neither a consensus over the form of pluralism that is required (whether this is a theory, method, or …