The Helsinki approach to economic methodology, or, how to espouse the mainstream?

Aki Lehtinen

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2021, vol. 28, issue 1, 79-87

Abstract: This paper provides metaphilosophical reflections on economic methodology by way of discussing the ‘Helsinki approach’. This approach combines the study of the practice of economics with an endeavor to retain a normative perspective. It also explains that it is difficult to find explicit espousals of mainstream economics in the methodological literature not because nobody takes a mainstream view, but rather because expressing such a view is inconsistent with the prevalent metaphilosophical approach.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868775

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