PART IV - POSTSCRIPTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Economists have philosophers and economic methodologists looking over their shoulders. Philosophers, in contrast, have to look over their own shoulders. It's a paradoxical but unavoidable task. Chapter 16 explores the paradoxes that arise when philosophy of economics is conceived of as an empirical discipline – that is, as basing its conclusions on evidence provided by psychology, sociology, and the history of science, including especially the history of economics. Chapter 17 then distinguishes philosophy of economics from economic methodology – and thereby explains why economists have two spectators looking over their shoulders.
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- Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology , pp. 219 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992