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The Foundations of

Economic Methodology Methodology for a New Microeconomics:

The Critical Foundations The Methodology of Economic Model

Building: Methodology after Samuelson The Principles of

Economics: Some Lies My Teachers Told Me

Preface

British Library Cataloging in Publication Data

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Methodology’s demand and supply

Outline of the book

Part I Friedman’s methodology essay

The saga of my 1979 paper

The usefulness of logic

‘Instrumentalism’ and the relationship between logic,

truth and theories

A reader’s guide to Friedman’s essay

The critics

On criticizing instrumentalism

The sociology of economics vs defeatist conventionalism

Evidence of the hostile atmosphere

Satisficing in methodology

Friedman’s methodology vs conventional empiricism

‘Sound methodology’ vs ‘logically sound’ argument

Popper vs conventionalist-Popper

Do institutionalist economists really believe in formalism?

Friedman’s alleged inconsistencies in correspondence

Limits to the history of contemporary thought

Critical economic methodology

Contents

Part II Methodological criticism and neoclassical economics

Types of criticism and the maximization hypothesis

Part IV Criticizing the methods of economic analysis

Explanation as applied ‘rationality’

Individualism as a research program

The logical basis for criticism

Individualism and eighteenth-century mechanical

rationalism

The importance of distinguishing between tautologies and

metaphysics

Unity through mechanics and universality through

uniqueness

Appraisal as criticism

Methodological individualism and unity-vs-diversity

The poverty of conventionalist methodology in economics

The analytical problem of price adjustment

Part III Criticizing the methods of economic methodology

Knowledge and truth status: historically speaking

Epistemology vs methodology: the theoretical perspective

The practice of economic methodology

closure of the analytical equilibrium model

Toward closure through ignorance

Exogenous convergence with forced learning

Endogenous convergence with autonomous learning

Are the foundations complete?

Positive economics vs what?

The problem with traditional explanations of dynamic

processes

Time, logic and true statements

Time and knowledge: the Problem of Rational Dynamics

A possible solution to the Problem of Rational Dynamics

Alternative solutions to the Problem of Rational Dynamics

Concluding lessons

Positivism as rhetoric

What everyone seems to think ‘positive’ is

Modern economic positivism is profoundly confused

Positive science or positive engineering?

Positive evidence about positive economics

Explaining the use of the standard article format

Positive success or positive failure?

Psychologism in economics: Pareto revisited

Methodology of Economics

Psychologism and values

Suggestions for another revised edition

Explanation and psychologism

Will the real Popper stand up, please!

Psychologism and general equilibrium

On the utility of ‘methodological appraisal’

Psychologism and values again

Some suggestions

Values as social conventions

Methodological pluralism vs problem-dependent

methodology

Integrating the infinitesimal

Proofs vs infinity-based assumptions

Diversity as non-comprehension

The axiom of choice

From idiosyncratic to mainstream

False hopes of set theory

Unrealistic discontinuities

Integers vs the explanation of prices

Infinite sets vs complete explanation

Critical economic methodology

Inductive knowledge and infinity-based assumptions

Lessonsunlearned

Stylized facts in use today

Criticizingstylizedmethodology

Part V Popper and economic methodology

Is there a Popperian legacy in economics?

Criticism of Popper’s view of science

Understanding Popper’s view of science

Falsifiability in economics

Attempts to create a Popperian legacy

The rhetoric of Popper’s view of science

ThepopularPopper

TheSocraticPopper

Popper’s seminar and the hijacker

Popper’s disciples vs Popper and the hijacker

The popular Popper vs the important Popper

The future of Popperian economic methodology

The sociology of journal referees

The intolerance of liberal-minded pluralism

The hypocrisy of specialized journals

The hypocrisy in matters deemed to be ideological

The future of substantive methodology

The imperviousness of neoclassical economics

Bibliography

Name index

Subject index

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