Reviews: Milton’s Positivism Found Wanting

Autor:	David L. Hammes
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Philosophy Feeling media_common.quotation_subject Instrumentalism Beauty Empiricism Positivism Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Realism media_common Epistemology
Zdroj:	Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 41:398-419
ISSN:	1552-7441 0048-3931
DOI:	10.1177/0048393109360488
Popis:	Milton Friedman’s 1953 essay created controversy and consternation amongst economists. It provided a prescription, based on empirically generated predictive success, of how to do economics, yet many saw it as a concession of the search for truth and theoretical beauty within the discipline. This article reviews a 50th anniversary festschrift devoted to views of the essay. The purpose of the volume is to provide today’s reader with the essay, responses, and a guide to interpreting it. The volume is selective and several contributors have their own agendas, but the feeling of tumult the essay still engenders is nicely conveyed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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