ABSTRACT

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 argues that methodology is an essential activity. Offering a constructive, but critical, response to the recent literature, this collection provides important new insights for students and researchers in economic methodology and the philosophy of science.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part |53 pages

Rhetoric and postmodernism in economics

part |43 pages

Economists on methodology

chapter |8 pages

The value of Post Keynesian economics

A neoclassical response to Harcourt and Hamouda

chapter |14 pages

Vision and progress in economic thought

Schumpeter after Kuhn

part |45 pages

Pragmatism and empirical philosophy of science