Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological
tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of …

Our goal for the Handbook of Economic Methodology was to provide a detailed and
comprehensive coverage of the field of economic methodology. Since economic …

Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science
and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching …

Reviews the epistemological ideas that inspired the classical economists: the
methodological principles of Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Locke, Hume, Stewart …

This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of
economics. Cumulatively they offer fresh perspectives on foundational questions such as …

Hutchison's 1939 classic, The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory. The
relationship has lasted forty years, bringing plaudits from some camps, criticism from others …

It is an unfortunate if somewhat paradoxical feature of contemporary economics that
methodological reasoning is widely denigrated-unfortunate because methodological …

There is an embarrassing polarization of opinions about the status of economics as an
academic discipline, as reflected in epithets such as the Dismal Science and the Queen of …

Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology. Explorations in
Economic Methodology both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by the literature and …

This is a survey of mainstream economic methodology, both in the sense of mainstream
methodology and of mainstream economics. Tensions are identified in methodology …