The methodology of positive economics : reflections on the Milton Friedman legacy /
Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics' remains the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of methodological writing in twentieth-century economics. Since its appearance, the essay has shaped the image of economics as a scientific discipline, bot...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The methodology of positive economics (1953) / Milton Friedman
- Reading the methodological essay in twentieth-century economics: map of multiple perspectives / Uskali Mäki
- Early drafts of Friedman's methodology essay / J. Daniel Hammond
- Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement / Uskali Mäki
- The influence of Friedman's methodological essay / Tom Mayer
- Did Milton Friedman's positive methodology license the formalist revolution? / D. Wade Hands
- Appraisal of evidence in economic methodology / Melvin W. Reder
- The politics of positivism: disinterested predictions from interested agents / David Teira Serrano and Jesús Zamora Bonilla
- Friedman's 1953 essay and the marginalist controversy / Roger E. Backhouse
- Friedman (1953) and the theory of the firm / Oliver E. Williamson
- Friedman's selection argument revisited / Jack Vromen
- Expected utility and Friedman's risky methodology / Chris Starmer
- Milton Friedman's stance: the methodology of causal realism / Kevin D. Hoover
- On the right side for the wrong reason: Friedman on the Marshall-Walras divide / Michel De Vroey
- The debate over F53 after fifty years / Mark Blaug
- Final word / Milton Friedman.