Revisiting Friedman’s “On the methodology of positive economics” (“F53”) [PDF]
Methodus, 2021 In this paper, I shall defend two main claims. First, Friedman’s famous paper “On the methodology of positive economics” (“F53”) cannot be properly understood without taking into account the influence of three authors who are neither cited nor mentioned ...
Paul Hoyningen‐Huene
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A new definition of and role for preferences in positive economics [PDF]
, 2017 Positive economic models aim to provide truthful explanations of significant (aspects of) economic phenomena. While the notion of ‘preferences’ figures prominently in micro-economic models, it suffers from a remarkable lack of conceptual clarity and ...
Bart Engelen
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The second fundamental theorem of positive economics [PDF]
, 2012 Welfare Economics is fortunate that there are two Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. Positive Economics on the other hand is seemingly endowed with none.
Anjan Mukherji
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‘The methodology of positive economics’ (1953) does not give usthemethodology of positive economics [PDF]
, 2003 Uskali Mäki
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The New Economics of Industrial Policy
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement over the earlier generation of empirical work, which was largely ...
R. Juhász, Nathaniel Lane, D. Rodrik
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Economics as a Discipline of Instrumental Reason. Looking at Economics as a Science from the Perspective of the Frankfurt School of Philosophy [PDF]
, 2015 The article is built around the analysis of The critique of instrumental reason by Horkheimer, applied to issues connected with the philosophy of economics.
Komusińska, Jagoda
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‘Economics with training wheels’: Using blogs in teaching and assessing introductory economics [PDF]
, 2011 Blogs provide a dynamic interactive medium for online discussion, consistent with communal constructivist pedagogy. This paper explores the use of blogs in the teaching and assessment of a small (40-60 students) introductory economics paper.
Cameron, Michael Patrick
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Apriorist self-interest: How it embraces altruism and is not vacuous [PDF]
, 1997 This essay is part of an attempt to reconcile two extreme views in economics: the (neglected) subjective, apriorist approach and the (standard) objective, scientific (i.e., falsifiable) approach.
Lester, J. C.
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Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics [PDF]
, 2007 Interest in behavioral economics has grown in recent years, stimulated largely by accumulating evidence that the standard model of consumer decision making provides an inadequate, positive description of human behavior. Behavioral models are increasingly
Bernheim, B. Douglas, Rangel, Antonio
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FDI, Education, and Economic Growth: Quality Matters! [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we revisit the results from the influential study by Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998), which argues that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes the economic growth in a less developed host ...
Wang, Miao, Wong, M. C. Sunny
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