Reflecting onBeyond Positivismat Thirty-Five

Bruce Caldwell

A chapter in Including a Symposium on Bruce Caldwell’sBeyond PositivismAfter 35 Years, 2018, vol. 36A, pp 81-90 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: In 1982 my bookBeyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Centurywas published. At the 2017 History of Economics Society meeting, a session was held to mark the 35th anniversary of that event. Papers by Wade Hands, Kevin Hoover, Tony Lawson, and the trio Peter Boettke, Solomon Stein, and Virgil Storr were prepared. In this paper, I respond by reflecting on how I came to writeBeyond Positivismand on the state of the field of economic methodology at the time, and then commenting briefly on each of the papers noted above.

Keywords: Positivism; methodology of economics; philosophy of science; methodological pluralism; theory choice; Friedrich Hayek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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