Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that … raises possible implications of these marketing and ideological imperatives by approaching the problem from a number of …, economics is full of uncertainties and uncontrollable difficulties …

sample of economics textbooks from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is argued that they contain nothing to contradict the …