The state of contemporary economics had been a subject of discussion even before the most recent global financial …

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and … the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by …

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and … the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by …

Classical virtue theory has received limited attention in economics. The paper demonstrates its fruitfulness for … economic and legal analysis by linking the traditional ethical literature with modern law and economics. Virtues are … economics. It is found that the virtue factor has major significance in economic life.The paper also outlines a general …

The history of modern economics abounds with pleas for more pluralism as well as pleas for more unification. These seem … Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) to argue that even in influential foundational research in modern … particular, Samuelson's Foundations is invariably presented as a key text in the unification of modern economics during the …

happened to political economy ever since, and how far economics has diverged from Robbins' agenda. Our main claim is that these … topics appeared on the second edition of the Essay because Robbins saw them as fundamental if economics (as a science) were … to mimic the methods of the natural sciences by preserving the human element that makes economics a social science …

Is economics a science? Answering this question is not only necessary for philosophical clarity, but also crucial for … light of solid philosophical ground, I then discuss the practice and methodology of modern economics. The answer to the …

The history of AI in economics is long and winding, much the same as the evolving field of AI itself. Economists have … particular, we centre our accompanying discussion of AI in economics around the problems of economic calculation and social … containing bibliometrics information of economics papers based on search query results from the Scopus database and the …

, in this article, to point out the mirage implied in attempts to consider economics as the “physics of the social sciences … viability of experimental (or quasi-experimental) evaluations would have made it possible the economics to make the leap to … the case of economics. Permeating this debate are the problems associated with identifying the boundaries between …