ABSTRACT

They say that there are only three writers on economic methodology who espouse Popperianism, Terence Hutchison, Johannes Klant and myself. Who are they} Well, Bruce Caldwell has said it (1991a: 64; 1993: xix) and so has Wade Hands (1993: 23). I am not sure they are right but until others come forward, I for one declare myself to be an unrepentant Popperian. I know that Popper enjoys little esteem among professional philosophers of science. I know that there are real weaknesses and perhaps even damaging flaws in his position. But I still believe that much of the letter and certainly all of the spirit of this theory come closer to my deep-held convictions about the methodology of economics than any other philosophical thinker.