This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, "view from nowhere" conception of economics and defends an open science, "view from somewhere" conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its...

Mainstream economics assumes economic agents act and make decisions to maximize their utility. This model of economic behavior, based on rational choice theory, has come under increasing attack in economics because it does not accurately reflect the way people behave and reason. The shift...

This paper examines the conception of individuals as being of certain types in Harsanyi'stransformation of games of incomplete information into games of complete information. Itargues that while the conception of the individual in games of complete information offerspotential advances over the...