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judge heterodox economics, and the relationship of ideology and economic theory, are also raised by these criticisms as well …
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using standard trade theory. It associates that defense with interdisciplinarity or the idea that the sciences are … around neoclassicism as a theory that sees the world in its own image in a performative manner. This strategy, however …
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deduced from the theory's axioms than in the negative results which may emerge from empirical testing. It is very rare to see … a theory disregarded because of an apparent disconfirmation. In economics there is, broadly speaking, nothing like a … use of mathematics, the relationship between economic theory and applied economics as well as other methodological issues …
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adequately, then both rational choice theory and bounded rationality theories become compatible, as they differ in their degrees …
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, and 2) that by Mises's own theory, standard economic propositions are not a priori propositions …
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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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This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
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As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...
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. Nevertheless, there is neither a consensus over the form of pluralism that is required (whether this is a theory, method, or …
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