... 0 1978 by Duke University Press A note interpreting Cournot’s economics by his general epistemology George F. Rhodes, Jr. Augustin Cournot presented a law of sales (or law of demand) in his Recherches sur les principes mathe‘matiques de la the‘orie des ri- chesses...

...Marcel Boumans The first two chapters of Trygve Haavelmo’s Probability Approach provide a very rich epistemological framework for understanding what is involved in finding laws outside the laboratory. Even though these laws will be inexact, a framework was developed to specify for which conditions...

... theory to cybernetics. As this profusion of analytical technologies gathered pace in the early years of the Cold War, practitioners of economics and cognate disciplines began to register what I term tool shock . Foundational debates about the epistemological properties and scientific legitimacy...

...William Deringer This article explores the history of commercial epistemology during the first half of the eighteenth century in Britain. During that period, questions about the character of commerce as a field of knowledge—whether it was a simple or complex, how it related to commercial “interest...

.... 2000 . The Scope, Limits, and Distinctiveness of the Method of “Deduction from the Phenomena”:Some Lessons from Newton's “Demonstrations” in Optics. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 : 45 -80. Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory Luigino Bruni...

... Labor Theory of Value. In Essays in the History of Economics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The Epistemological Status of Ricardo’s Labor Theory Mathieu J. Carlson The problematic of value can be conceived in two profoundly different ways. Viewed analytically...

...Roger E. Backhouse Edited by George Steinmetz. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 632 pp. $25.95 paperback. 2007 Book Reviews The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemologi- cal Others. Edited by George Steinmetz. Durham, N.C.: Duke University...

... forward by these scholars. This article argues that to adequately evaluate such readings one must understand the inalienable role that a scholar's epistemological framework plays in the conditioning of their reading of historical texts and concepts. To do so, the author examines two divergent readings...

...Tiago Mata Abstract The introductory essay to the HOPE supplement on “economics as news” argues why journalism is a deserving subject for research in the history of economics. The case rests on three claims. The first is that the study of journalism gives us a view of a distinct epistemological...

.... The shift from “Keynesian economics” to “new classical economics” is based on a shift from a control engineering approach to an information engineering methodology. This “revolution” was even more radical; it also changed the epistemology and ontology of macroeconomics. The ontology of information...

... economy. Liberatore’s purpose was to emend political economy and bring it into line with Catholic principles, but his two main objections to it, ethical and epistemological, imply that the task is impossible. Thus he does not press them and instead engages in a series of skirmishes with political economy...

... theory, an epistemology of “application” that emphasized awareness to institutional details, trials and errors and experiments). By the 2000s, they had turned into economic engineers designing markets and other allocation mechanisms. These cross-disciplinary exchanges were mediated by Stanford’s own...

... Menger published his Principles (1871), the German econo- mists had not only developed the basic elements of a subjectivist tradi- tion in economics (see Hermann 1832); they also had sought to establish their economic theories on a sound epistemological and methodological basis. These methodological...

... Nachf . Bostaph Samuel Harvey . 1976 . Epistemological foundations in economics: the case of the nineteenth-century Methodenstreit . Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University . Bostaph Samuel Harvey . 1978 . The methodological debate between Carl Menger and the German...

... to Evolutionary Epistemology. Journal of Social and Biological Structures 13 . 3 : 193 -258. Bartley III W. W. 1990 . Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth . La Salle, Ill.: Open Court. Benoist , Jean-Marie. 1974 . Classicism Revisited: Human Nature and Structure in Lévi-Strauss...

.... In spite of the best intentions, and in spite of considerable sophistication, theirs is a self-mutilated Marxism, Marx with both hands tied behind his back. With friends such as these, Marx needs no enemies. Most epistemological critiques of Marxism attack Marx and his followers either...

... than Kuhn’s; he takes the argument further. The debate in the literature on the history of science is necessarily a debate simultaneously on the question of what theory or science is; it is an epistemolog- ical debate. Rorty, a philosophy professor, recognizes and elaborates the episte...

... counter to the Aristotelian, realist-essentialist reading of his thought (on Menger's conventionalist bent, see also Slenzok 2023 ). Against this background, a clear statement of the Wertfreiheit principle in the social sciences, the epistemology-based and pluralistic division of economic sciences...

... Yearley. 1992a . Epistemological Chicken. In Science as Practice and Culture , edited by A. Pickering, 301 -26. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Collins , Harry M. , and Steven Yearley. 1992b . Journey into Space. In Science as Practice and Culture , edited by A. Pickering, 369 -89...

... , Sandra . 1986 . The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Harding , Sandra . 1987 . Epistemological Questions. In Feminism and Methodology, edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. Harding , Sandra . 1990 . Feminism, Science...