ABSTRACT
Geoff Harcourt advocates a pluralist, or what he calls ‘horses for courses’, approach in his writings on the methodology of economics. I suspect that this attitude is partly one of temperament. For, as everyone knows, Geoff is something of an exception in a discipline not generally noted for the generosity of spirit displayed between its competing factions. Certainly I have never known him but to emphasize the positive aspects of any book, paper, or talk, whatever the methodological or ideological inclinations of its author.
