This article poses a new methodology applying the statistical analysis to the economic literature. This analysis has never been used in the history of economic thought, albeit it may open up new possibilities and provide us with further explanations so as to reconsider theoretical issues. With...

1. Styles of Scientific Reasoning as Historiographical Metaphor: A Reply to Martin Kusch -- 2. The Myth of the Framework and the Modes of Thought in Economics -- 3. Historical Epistemology of Ecological Economics and Styles of Economic Reasoning -- 4. The Crisis of the Historical Style of...