This paper concerns a neglected aspect of Lucas's work: his methodological writings, published and unpublished. Particular attention is paid to his views on the relationship between theory and ideology. I start by setting out Lucas's non-standard conception of theory: to him, a theory and a...

This article is an in-depth analysis of Backhouse and Boianovsky's book, <italic>Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: Exploring Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003</italic>. I start with questioning Backhouse and Boianovsky's too broad understanding of the disequilibrium approach. Thereby they bring...

<title>Abstract</title> The standard view about the relationship between the Marshallian and the Walrasian approaches is that they are complementary to each other. My aim in this paper is to show that, on the contrary, they constitute alternative sub-research programmes within the wider neoclassical paradigm....