Economic methodology: understanding economics as a science / Marcel Boumans, John Bryan Davis, Mark Blaug, Harro Maas, Andrej Svorencik

The Received View of Science Focus 1.1 Axiomatization Focus 1.2 Models Focus 1.3 Formalism Methodologies of Positive Economics Focus 2.1 Methodologies before Friedman Focus 2.2 Measurement Focus 2.3 Experiments Popper's Logic of Discovery Focus 3.1 The Duhem-Quine Thesis Focus 3.2 Popper's Situational Analysis Focus 3.3 Testing Kuhn and Lakatos Focus 4.1 Research Programs in Economics Focus 4.2 Scientific Revolutions in Economics? Focus 4.3 Facts The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Focus 5.1 Economics as a Discipline Focus 5.2 Case Study Research Focus 5.3 Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist Political Economy Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism Focus 6.1 Analogy and Metaphor Focus 6.2 Paul Feyerabend Focus 6.3 Realism and Causal Explanation in Economics Value Judgements in Economics Focus 7.1 Logical Positivism and Ordinalist Utility Theory Focus 7.2 Neutral Science? Focus 7.3 Naturalistic Legitimation Glossary