Add to ORKGDespite the idiosyncratic behavior of individuals, empirical regularities exist in social and economic systems. These regularities often arise from simple underlying mechanisms which, analogous to the natural sciences, can be expressed as universal principles or laws. In this essay, I discuss the similarities between economic and natural phenomena and argue that it is advantageous for economists to adopt methods from the natural sciences to discover “universal laws” in economic systems
Economic laws express the most essential intrinsic relationships and dependencies between economic p...
In this chapter we consider economic systems, and in particular financial systems, from the perspec-...
We are in the middle of a crucial debate whether Economics is really a natural science, which concer...
Despite the idiosyncratic behavior of individuals, empirical regularities exist in social and econom...
Despite the idiosyncratic behavior of individuals, empirical regularities exist in social and econom...
In this article, the author defends the idea that one of the positive results of modern economic ana...
The article contains a polemic against the hypothesis that the social sciences do not formulate scie...
Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable quantitative laws...
This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles. It expla...
The concept of natural law is pervasive in academic discussions of ethics, politics, and jurisprude...
In this article, we discuss the possibility of economics as a discipline emulating the success of ha...
This book is a critical investigation of universal natural laws in economic science—the idea that la...
Economics, and other fields of social science are often criticized as unscientific for their apparen...
Critics both within and outside of philosophy have challenged economics wholesale as unscientific. I...
Much ink has been spilled on the contrast between the striking success of economic analysis of law i...
Economic laws express the most essential intrinsic relationships and dependencies between economic p...
In this chapter we consider economic systems, and in particular financial systems, from the perspec-...
We are in the middle of a crucial debate whether Economics is really a natural science, which concer...
Despite the idiosyncratic behavior of individuals, empirical regularities exist in social and econom...
Despite the idiosyncratic behavior of individuals, empirical regularities exist in social and econom...
In this article, the author defends the idea that one of the positive results of modern economic ana...
The article contains a polemic against the hypothesis that the social sciences do not formulate scie...
Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable quantitative laws...
This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles. It expla...
The concept of natural law is pervasive in academic discussions of ethics, politics, and jurisprude...
In this article, we discuss the possibility of economics as a discipline emulating the success of ha...
This book is a critical investigation of universal natural laws in economic science—the idea that la...
Economics, and other fields of social science are often criticized as unscientific for their apparen...
Critics both within and outside of philosophy have challenged economics wholesale as unscientific. I...
Much ink has been spilled on the contrast between the striking success of economic analysis of law i...
Economic laws express the most essential intrinsic relationships and dependencies between economic p...
In this chapter we consider economic systems, and in particular financial systems, from the perspec-...
We are in the middle of a crucial debate whether Economics is really a natural science, which concer...