1. Continuing myths and fallacies of modern economics -- 2. Modern economics : the problem and a solution -- 3. The nature of heterodox economics -- 4. What is this 'school' called neoclassical economics? -- 5. The current economic crisis : its nature and the course of academic economics -- 6....

The versions of positivism that are critically assessed in Bruce Caldwell’s Beyond Positivism bear two dominant sets of implications. One is that knowledge growth is monistic in nature; the other is that science has a specific deductivist structure. Caldwell focuses mainly on the former and its...