Boland, Lawrence - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2003) 4, pp. 521-526
critics of his essay, almost everyone now recognizes his essay as a prime example of what I called instrumentalism. Most … economists, who when questioned about their views of methodology, will agree with Friedman's instrumentalism but only if Friedman …'s name is not mentioned. But many of those same economists will claim to disagree with instrumentalism when it is explicitly …
