Many economists, and even methodologists, believe that the very abstractness of abstract methodology (AM) betrays it into either authoritarianism or vapidity. But though AM can certainly suffer from these defects, abstractness is not the cause of them. The root problems, arising from AM’s justificationist history, are its impersonalism, its assumption that the logic of research is Aristotelian, and its stress on the distracting empiricist distinction between observation and non-observation. Perhaps, then, AM can be revived in a form which attends to individual researchers and their actual use of logic, and applies to all branches of research. A revived normative AM, attempting to foster ‘logical progress’, would consider the situation of th...
Mark Blaug’s normative methodology of economics is an attempt to articulate certain intuitions about...
The sudden financial crash of 2008 and the failure of economists to adequately predict the crisis ha...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...
Many economists, and even methodologists, believe that the very abstractness of abstract methodology...
Uniquely among sciences, the methodology of economics (its epistemology, ontology, scope, and focal ...
Economic methodologists have observed that economists do not practice what they think their methodo...
Economic methodologists have observed that economists do not practice what they think their methodol...
Many Austrians consider methodology to be the distinguishing characteristic of the school of thought...
Practicing academic economists are reported to pay little attention to work being done by economic m...
Although economists use a variety of methodological tools, the emphasis is often put onto formalisti...
“In discussions on the nature of economics, we frequently hear that a single methodological position...
What is truth? What is knowledge? How can knowledge be identified? How can the growth of knowledge b...
This book applies a critical focus on the extent to which methodological practices in mainstream eco...
My argument in this book is rather straightforward. I shall argue that every neoclassical research p...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...
Mark Blaug’s normative methodology of economics is an attempt to articulate certain intuitions about...
The sudden financial crash of 2008 and the failure of economists to adequately predict the crisis ha...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...
Many economists, and even methodologists, believe that the very abstractness of abstract methodology...
Uniquely among sciences, the methodology of economics (its epistemology, ontology, scope, and focal ...
Economic methodologists have observed that economists do not practice what they think their methodo...
Economic methodologists have observed that economists do not practice what they think their methodol...
Many Austrians consider methodology to be the distinguishing characteristic of the school of thought...
Practicing academic economists are reported to pay little attention to work being done by economic m...
Although economists use a variety of methodological tools, the emphasis is often put onto formalisti...
“In discussions on the nature of economics, we frequently hear that a single methodological position...
What is truth? What is knowledge? How can knowledge be identified? How can the growth of knowledge b...
This book applies a critical focus on the extent to which methodological practices in mainstream eco...
My argument in this book is rather straightforward. I shall argue that every neoclassical research p...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...
Mark Blaug’s normative methodology of economics is an attempt to articulate certain intuitions about...
The sudden financial crash of 2008 and the failure of economists to adequately predict the crisis ha...
The paper proposes to reconsider the methodology and history of economics radically, whether present...