social studies, including economics …

action of Alfred Schütz. Because of the importance that Mises’ theory has had on economics it is interesting to highlight the …

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

My purposes in this essay are two-fold. First, I provide some background on the disciplines of economics and sociology … discourse between the two disciplines because, as a law and economics scholar, it is this portion of the discourse that I feel …

methodological pluralism in modern economics. …Economics as a branch of social science is marked by considerable inconsistency, but this fact is largely beyond public … phenomenon of pluralism is only rudimentarily developed and the discourse between the different approaches is proceeding as …

In recent academic and to some extent public debates, mainstream economics has been accused of excessive … mathematization. The rejection of mathematical and other formal methods is often cited as a crucial trait of Austrian economics. Based … on a systematic discussion of potential benefits and potential drawbacks of formalization in economics, the paper …

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 …

cover all new approaches to economics, which fall outside of the boxes of conventional macro, micro, and econometrics of the …

This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, ‘view from nowhere’ conception of … economics and defends an open science, ‘view from somewhere’ conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception … to mainstream economics, associates it with its principle practices – reductionist modeling, formalization, limited …