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Caldwell's Beyond Positivism was a key publication that helped to precipitate the consolidation of the methodology of … scientific humility. Caldwell's defense of Austrian methodology is taken as a case study to illustrate and investigate his key …
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In 1982 my book Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century was published. At the 2017 History of … reflecting on how I came to write Beyond Positivism and on the state of the field of economic methodology at the time, and then …
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The rhetoric of positivism had a profound effect on the worldview and practice of economists in the middle of the last … history of their discipline. This paper traces the effects of positivism in economics, then argues that the history of …
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Whatever F.A. Hayek meant by "knowledge" could not have been the justified true belief conception common in the Western intellectual tradition from at least the time of Plato onward. In this brief note, I aim to uncover and succinctly state Hayek's unique definition of knowledge.
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Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...
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We propose a historical perspective on replication in experimental economics focused on public good games. Our intended contribution is twofold: in terms of method and in terms of object. Methodologically, we blend traditional qualitative history of economics with a less traditional quantitative...
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The interest-rate controversies between Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher have attracted little attention and, in the opinion of most commentators, justifiably so. Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher argue over what appear to be two minor issues – Böhm-Bawerk's claims that his third cause of interest (productivity...
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The present essay investigates F.A. Hayek's epistemology and his methodology of sciences of complex phenomena for …
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on the methodology of disciplines that study complex phenomena. The phenomena of Hayek's career are complex phenomena …
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There is something extreme about Mises' apriorism, namely, his epistemological justification of the a priori element(s) of economic theory. His critics have long recognized and attacked the extremeness of Mises' epistemology of a priori knowledge. However, several of his defenders have glossed...
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