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Before the use of mathematics in economics was generalized, mathematical and nonmathematically trained economist lived together. This paper studies this period of cohabitation. By focusing on the communication challenges between these two groups during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a watershed...
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We study the construction of the macroeconometric model of the Committee on Economic Stability (CES) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in the early 1960s using the CES's archival records. Building this model was central not only to set the bases for the subsequent construction of...
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This essay analyzes the construction of "neutral" knowledge by the scholars (mostly psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists) who were members of UNESCO's Social Science Department between 1946 and 1956. Making use of recent literature on the politics of knowledge and using archive...
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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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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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Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics, published in 1871, is usually regarded as the founding document of the Austrian School of economics. Many of the School’s prominent representatives, including Friedrich Wieser, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig Mises, Hans Mayer, Friedrich August Hayek, Fritz...
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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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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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