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 …

Once economics came to be understood as the scientific investigation of the operation of markets, economic theorists … had no more jurisdiction over the discipline of economics than they did over other scientific disciplines. On one side … has often been understood as part of secularization, yet, economics and theology have often intersected since the …

'Economics and its fellow social sciences' ought to be 'regarded more nearly as branches of philosophy.' The second is [ii] the … denial that economics is 'enmeshed with values at the outset because they deal with human behaviour'. I show that Friedman … that positive economics is (in a non-trivial sense) enmeshed in values. In order to account for Friedman's overreaching, I …

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 …

institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the … modern economics profession, it is plausible that economic ideas compete on margins unrelated to truth. The adaptive value of … certain kinds of economics can explain the prevalence of the economics that is currently practiced. Since survivability and …

action of Alfred Schütz. Because of the importance that Mises’ theory has had on economics it is interesting to highlight the …The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the praxeology of L. von Mises and the theory of … theory of the action is being more and more diffused in the social sciences and in the second place, because the importance …

The interpretive critique is primarily focused on economics as a system for understanding markets as a dynamic process … of human interactions and exchange. It does not equate economics with the market but instead understands economics as one …

The Consumer Welfare Hypothesis in Law and Economics is a compelling account of market relations with firm roots in … economic theory and legal practice. This incisive book challenges the mainstream view that allocative efficiency is about total …