Appraising economic theories *

This bulky volume contains the revised proceedings of a conference held in Capri, Italy, from 15–18 October, 1989, funded by the Latsis Foundation. It was, in a sense, a sequel to the Lakatos Conference held in Nafplion, Greece, in September 1974, with lavish support from the same source. From the earlier occasion two volumes appeared: Spiro Latsis ed. Method and Appraisal in Economics (C.U.P., 1976) and Colin Howson ed. Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences (C.U.P., 1976). The first of these has been extensively cited in the economics literature. The latter, curiously enough, does not even get a mention here.