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...

Eponymic honor is a common form of professional recognition in economics, as it is in other sciences. There also seems to be convincing evidence that individuals exposed to economic theory behave less cooperatively and more self-interestedly than individuals who have not been exposed to such...

This paper examines elements of the complex place/role/influence of psychology in the history of consumer choice theory. The paper reviews, and then challenges, the standard narrative that psychology was "in" consumer choice theory early in the neoclassical revolution, then strictly "out" during...

The literature on philosophy and economics has traditionally been divided into two areas: economic methodology, which connects economics and epistemology/philosophy of science, and the literature on economics and moral philosophy/ethics. Recent developments in both of these areas are discussed...

One of many controversies surrounding the work of Frank Knight involves the question of whether, or to what degree, his ideas were consistent with those of American pragmatism. Substantive textual evidence can be found to support almost any simple answer to the question. This paper argues that...

This paper addresses the question of why the economic theory of the Neoclassical Synthesis looked so much like the so-called "received view" philosophy of science during the same period (1945-1965). The paper discusses seven common features of the two programs and considers three possible...

Books reviewed in this article: Gordon Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin, Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency John Ravenhill, APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D....