ABSTRACT
Development economics provides fertile ground for philosophers of science and of the social sciences. It does so in large part because those who study economic development disagree deeply about what their enterprise should look like. But this disagreement means that development economics may have something to learn from the philosophy of science. Any time science disagrees about fundamentals, philosophical issues are frequently just below the surface. So we should not be surprised to find various approaches in development economics the slave of the ideas, to paraphrase Keynes, of some dead philosophy of science.
