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Postmodernism and economics: a middlebrow view
Samuels, Warren - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 3 (1996) 1, pp. 113-120
Exposition and defense of postmodernism in regards to epistemology and language in economics. Centers on truth versus … tools and truth versus story while emphasizing social constructivism, methodological pluralism, and multiplicity of truth …. Affirms quest for confident knowledge but emphasizes limitations with regard to results understood as truth. Defends and puts …
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Tractability assumptions and the Musgrave-Maki typology
Hindriks, Frank - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 13 (2006) 4, pp. 401-423
Musgrave (1981) proposed a typology of assumptions, developed further by Maki (2000), to defend the idea that the truth …
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'The methodology of positive economics' (1953) does not give us the methodology of positive economics
Maki, Uskali - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2003) 4, pp. 495-505
It is argued that rather than a well defined F-Twist, Milton Friedman's 'Methodology of positive economics' offers an F-Mix: a pool of ambiguous and inconsistent ingredients that can be used for putting together a number of different methodological positions. This concerns issues such as the...
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