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The American Methodenstreit*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Gary Mongiovi
Affiliation:
Economics & Finance Department, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York

Abstract

So true is it that, in science as elsewhere, we fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.

(Schumpeter, 1954, p. 90)

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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