Lionel Robbins' "Essay" is one of the most influential methodological works in twentieth century economics. This said, the "Essay" is not philosophically seamless; it exhibits certain tensions that are not easily reconciled within any specific philosophical characterization of scientific...

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...

Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)—they all share common features, but there are...