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The rhetoric of policy relevance in international economics

Milberg, William - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 3 (1996) 2, pp. 237-259

the case of research in international trade, It establishes a taxonomy of rhetorical practices used to make such a link … most policy-relevant research is entirely theoretical, but the incidence of rhetorical practices legitimating policy … conclusions depends on the nature of the research method (theoretical or empirical), and the journal in which the research is …

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Vague language and precise measurement: the case of poverty

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2001) 1, pp. 41-58

Economists have often attempted precise measurement of phenomena which involve vague predicates. Difficulties emerge in such attempts if vagueness is not explicitly acknowledged at the methodological level. In this paper, various accounts of vague concepts are used to think about the economics...

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Interpersonal comparisons of utility: positive, normative or value-laden?

Rosenbaum, Eckehard - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 2 (1995) 2, pp. 239-258

The paper examines whether interpersonal comparisons of utility have to be interpreted as positive, normative or value-laden. It suggests first that recent arguments advanced by John Davis which appeal to the functional role of utility comparisons neither suffice to characterise utility...

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Feminist economics: an Austrian perspective

Horwitz, Steven - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 2 (1995) 2, pp. 259-280

This paper attempts to assess the recent literature on feminist economics from the perspective of modern Austrian economics. Feminists and Austrians share many epistemological and methodological criticisms of neoclassical theory, although Austrians have never linked those criticisms to gender....

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Is Milton Friedman an artist or a scientist?

Colander, David - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 2 (1995) 1, pp. 105-122

Most economists will agree that Milton Friedman is a brilliant economist. Yet, the majority assessment is that his work is ideologically flawed, and that the Marshallian economics he advocates has been superseded by Walrasian economics. In this paper I argue that the reason for this negative...

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Acceptance of unsupported claims about reality: a blind spot in economics

Rogeberg, Ole; Melberg, Hans Olav - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 18 (2011) 1, pp. 29-52

Do economists accept absurd and unsupported claims about reality, and if so, why? We define four types of claims commonly made in economics that require different types of evidence, and show examples of each from the rational addiction literature. Claims about real world causal mechanisms and...

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The methodology of macroeconomics

Backhouse, Roger; Salanti, Andrea - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 6 (1999) 2, pp. 159-169

This paper outlines some of the main methodological issues to arise in macroeconomics, making the case that the methodological issues arising in macroeconomics are just as important as those arising in microeconomics and that they merit more attention. Focusing on the symposium to which it forms...

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The Duhem-Quine thesis and experimental economics: A reinterpretation

Søberg, Morten - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 12 (2005) 4, pp. 581-597

The Duhem-Quine thesis asserts that any empirical evaluation of a theory is in fact a composite test of several interconnected hypotheses. Recalcitrant evidence signals falsity within the conjunction of hypotheses, but logic alone cannot pinpoint the individual element(s) inside the theoretical...

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Successes and failures in the transformation of economics

Lipsey, Richard - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 8 (2001) 2, pp. 169-201

While acknowledging the successes of modern economics, this paper concentrates on some shortcomings. Many are traced to a single source: the great insights of economics are all qualitative. Economics does not have a theoretical structure that is tightly related to a rich body of data and those...

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Persuasion: Reflections on economics, data, and the 'homogeneity assumption'

Fforde, Adam - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 12 (2005) 1, pp. 63-91

gender and culture. The paper argues that a central issue in economic methodology and pedagogy should be, as North implicitly …

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