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The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman’s Methodology

Schliesser, Eric S. - 2010

Marshall, who plays an outsized role in Friedman’s self-conception of economics and economic theory. I also show that Stigler …

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Pareto and Political Economy as a Science : Methodological Revolution and Analytical Advances in Economic Theory in the 1890s

Marchionatti, Roberto; Gambino, Enrico - 1998

It is argued that Schumpeter's widely accepted judgment that Pareto's work is "completely rooted in Walras's system" constitutes a misreading of Pareto. In fact, already during the period 1892-1900, Pareto traces the methodological outlines of an economic science profoundly different from that...

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Policy Innovation as a Discovery Procedure : Exploring the Tacit Fringes of the Policy Formulation Process

Forstater, Mathew - 1999

Following up on the suggestions of Adolph Lowe, the paper investigates the potential contribution of pragmaticist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of "retroduction" (and especially Norwood Hanson's elaborations of that concept), mathematician George Polya's work on heuristics,...

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Policy Innovation as a Discovery Procedure : Exploring the Tacit Fringes of the Policy Formulation Process

Forstater, Mathew - 1998

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Robustness and Fragility of Markets : Research at the Interface of Economics and Computer Science

Blume, Lawrence E. - 2011

Market behavior is the central topic of economics. Yet while economists have a good understanding of the behavior of well-functioning markets, we have little to say about market fragility, market resiliency, and market collapse. Research emerging at the frontier between computer science and...

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On Economic Methodology : History of Economic Thought and a Tentative Comparison of Mainstream and Evolutionary Positions

Reschke, Carl Henning - 2010

provide workable solutions for real problems. Empirical research in economics is not free from this problem, because theory … influence theory. It has maybe by now become clear that this essay aims at sketching a framework for research and theory. My aim … economics. The idea to give a remedy for the seeming separation between economic theory and reality. This is a necessity for a …

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Did Milton Friedman's Methodology License the Formalist Revolution?

Hands, D. Wade - 2007

The paper examines two conflicting views that have emerged within the recent methodological literature regarding the relationship between Friedman's famous essay and the formalist revolution. I focus on three influential contributions to this ongoing debate: Mark Blaug, Terence Hutchison, and...

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Praxeology and the Rothbardians

Knott, Adam L - 2015

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Some Thoughts on Praxeology, Thymology, and the A Priori

Knott, Adam L - 2015

, and 2) that by Mises's own theory, standard economic propositions are not a priori propositions …

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Economic Methods (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Verfahren)

Myant, Martin; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2014

The contribution of economic analysis to the study of transformations is complicated by difficulties concerning both subject matter and method. The subject may be a grand social transformation or it may be a transformation of a more narrowly defined economic system. The method may be derived...

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