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Rosenberg's “Lakatosian Consolations for Economists”: Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

E. Roy Weintraub
E. Roy Weintraub
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Duke University
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Rosenberg (1986) argues that economists have embraced the methodology of scientific research programs, and the writings of Imre Lakatos (1978), at the same time that philosophers have been abandoning that approach. According to Rosenberg, the methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP) appears to allow some work in economics, which is neither tested nor testable, to be “scientific” nonetheless. That is, MSRP justifies some current practices which look hard to justify on strict falsificationist, or dogmatic positivist, grounds.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1987 , pp. 139 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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