The Fenoaltea Method: How Science Actually Advances

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Rivista di storia economica, 2022, issue 1, 115-124

Abstract: The Method is conjecture and refutation, the criticism and response by which any science actually advances. Much of economics and history instead indulges in «scissors-andpast » or the «empiricist monologue». Fenoaltea’s career illustrates the corrective

Keywords: Fenoaltea; scientific method; economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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