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Weintraub's Aims: A Brief Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Alexander Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg
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University of California, Riverside
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Weintraub is not really interested in whether economics is “science” or not. “Economists are not so unsophisticated as to think that calling economics a ‘science’ says anything about what economists do or should do” (1987, p. 140). But can it really be a matter of indifference to him whether the subject has the character of chemistry as opposed to literary criticism?

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1987 , pp. 143 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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