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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 695–739.
Published: 01 November 1997
... -616. Barnes , Barry . 1974 . Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Barnes , Barry . 1977 . Interests and Growth of Knowledge . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Barnes , Barry . 1982 . Thomas Kuhn and Social Science . New York...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 741–746.
Published: 01 November 1997
...John B. Davis Department of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI 53233. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Barnes , Barry , Bloor David, and John Henry. 1996 . Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (1): 161–165.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Yann Giraud The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century . By Csiszar Alex . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2018 . xi ; 376 pp. $45.00 . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 References Cahuc Pierre...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 204–227.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Eglė Rindzevičiūtė This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of “infrastructural knowledge”—that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge—that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 June 2019
... contribution as a new way of producing scientific knowledge that consisted in the construction and use of complex tools (macro-econometric models) within specific institutional configurations (econometric laboratories) used for explicit policy and scientific objectives in which the well-defined roles...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (1): 73–110.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with James Mill and Francis Horner. Moreover, the difference between practical and scientific knowledge which is, according Stewart, a difference in the use of abstraction, coincides with Ricardo's distinction between questions of facts and of principles. This connection, which appears in Ricardo's work...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 5–31.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the Philosophy of Science 8 , edited by Buck R. C. Cohen R. S. . Dordrecht : Reidel . ———. 1974 . Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes . In Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge , edited by Lakatos I. Musgrave A. E. . Cambridge : Cambridge University...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (3): 515–534.
Published: 01 June 2019
... normative status of econometric models. The PAS Study Week is interesting in two respects: while (and because) econometrics is acknowledged as a “scientific approach of economic phenomena”, the PAS invited the community of econometricians to revisit the role and contribution of economics to social justice...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., and the knowledge problem. This article argues that the use of narrative made Kirzner's theory more open to dialogue without tying him to the scientific demarcation criteria used in mainstream economics. The scientific narratives in Kirzner's work allow him to (i) emphasize the logical order of economic phenomena...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 375–391.
Published: 01 June 2024
... historical process that made economics a modeling-qua-engineering science (Morgan and Morrison 1999 ; Morgan 2012 ; Boumans 2005 ). By exploring the idea that the history of scientific knowledge can be regarded as the history of different practical reasoning styles, and by regarding modeling in economics...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 623–628.
Published: 01 September 2018
... stories are told, historians have lost sight of the travels of knowledge beyond lecture halls and scholarly journal pages. To explore that terrain I propose we reconceive scientific practice as communicative action. By studying the social lives of books, pamphlets, and newsprint that cross back and forth...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 747–750.
Published: 01 November 1997
.... Pinch. 1982 . Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Hands , Wade . 1997 . Conjectures and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought. HOPE , this issue. Mannheim , Karl . 1936...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 751–760.
Published: 01 November 1997
... the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production in scientific communities. In particular, Helen Watson-Verran and David Turnbull use an anthropology of knowledge to justify their claim that all knowledge systems, indigenous or western, should be treated on an equal methodological footing. Next...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (1): 101–103.
Published: 01 March 1991
... understandings of the growth of scientific knowledge, is associ- ated with providing rational reconstructions of particular lines of argu- ment in economic analysis: How did marginalism evolve? How was Smith “connected” to Hume? What is the origin of the marginal revenue curve? And so forth. Answers...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 691–694.
Published: 01 November 1997
... (1997) economics, for they comprise a majority of studies in a discipline accus- tomed to tracing the evolution of ideas or theories from rough, unformed, and imperfect things to completed bits of scientific knowledge. We have a sort of diffusion model of cause and effect, in romance or epic...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 121–142.
Published: 01 December 2008
... “scientific” and “religious” knowledge protected each from the other for a while. But Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory seemed to destroy that distinction, and so to discredit religion and theology. A variety of strategies for relating economics to theology has been adopted since that time by those...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 199–226.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with Tiebout himself. In consequence, this article seeks to repersonalize and contextualize Tiebout's scientific work. Professionally, Tiebout 1956 reflected its author's lifelong interest in local economies and governance. The social and political context of urban sprawl and political fragmentation...
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History of Political Economy (2025) 57 (1): 129–160.
Published: 01 February 2025
.... In fact, Menger shared several core positions with modern thinkers. Such non-Aristotelian threads in Menger tackled in the article encompass his views on essentialism and realism, a priori knowledge, the classification of sciences, and scientific value-freedom, as well as methods of historical inquiry...
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History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (2): 303–324.
Published: 01 June 1972
... (microsociological). The current ortho- doxy among students of the history and sociology of science sup- ports the contention that endogenous (or internal) influences largely explain the growth of scientific knowledge. Indeed one authority, after commenting on the “virtual disappearance” since World...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 368–370.
Published: 01 April 2024
... approach. The first conceives of scientific progress as increases in scientific knowledge; the second, as increases in “truthlikeness”; the third, in terms of increases in usefulness, broadly construed; and the last, in terms of understanding. These will be of interest to those who are concerned directly...