The Economics of Positive Methodology

Scott Moss

Chapter 2 in Economics as Worldly Philosophy, 1993, pp 15-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In what I believe to have been the first year (c. 1969) that Robert Heilbroner ran his graduate seminar in political economy, he was clearly wrestling with his own ideas on methodology and, in particular, Friedman’s (1953) essay on ‘The Methodology of Positive Economics’. Heilbroner argued that the essential problem with Friedman’s rejection of the importance of the realism of assumptions was that it denied any historical dimension to economic theory.

Keywords: Policy Analyst; Present Argument; Policy Prescription; Perfect Competition; Descriptive Accuracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22572-9_2

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