a theory disregarded because of an apparent disconfirmation. In economics there is, broadly speaking, nothing like a … use of mathematics, the relationship between economic theory and applied economics as well as other methodological issues …The aim of this article is to review some central ideas on economic methodology. Many people doubt whether economics …

in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …

judge heterodox economics, and the relationship of ideology and economic theory, are also raised by these criticisms as well …The renowned institutionalist Geoffrey Hodgson has claimed inter alia that heterodox economics has failed to define its … strategies: the creation of heterodox economics academic departments; for heterodox economists to enter non-economics academic …

This paper examines the implications of Chicago School economist Edward Lazear's 2000 defense of economics imperialism … using standard trade theory. It associates that defense with interdisciplinarity or the idea that the sciences are … operating in a contrary way. I argue that the solution to this dilemma was for neoclassicism to rebuild economics imperialism …

. Thus two methodological strands in economics disagree with each other: the objectivistic approach favors the methods of … adequately, then both rational choice theory and bounded rationality theories become compatible, as they differ in their degrees …

The state of contemporary economics had been a subject of discussion even before the most recent global financial …. Nevertheless, there is neither a consensus over the form of pluralism that is required (whether this is a theory, method, or …

attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a …

is argued that economics embraced a technocratic conception of politics and science. Philosophers, too, embraced and … philosophers and economics and that keep not just ethics, but virtue outside of economics. Many of these philosophers’ commitments … pure economics. So, in effect, this paper explores the origin and nature of a conceptual split between economics and ethics …

This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic … a broad and self-contained picture of how behavioral economics is changing the mainstream of economics. …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …