The history of the use of self-reports and the methodology of economics

José M. Edwards

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2012, vol. 19, issue 4, 357-374

Abstract: The main arguments currently held for and against the use of self-reports in economics are presented in their relation to well-known events in the history of the discipline: the ‘measurement without theory’, the ‘full-cost’, and the ‘economic expectations’ controversies. Doing so, the paper highlights the so far neglected role of George Katona's behavioral economics in these methodological discussions.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2012.741691

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