Pseudo-Scientific Economic Doctrine—Continued

Philosophy of Science 3 (4):515-541 (1936)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The analyses thus far undertaken of cost theory and utility theory have viewed these doctrines as they originally were, namely, as the contentions of two conflicting groups of value theorists. And had the two rival groups been allowed to continue to match strength on the plane on which Macvane, for example, contended, the result would probably have been the destruction of them both. Underneath surface conflicts, however, the rival theories had much in common. As the twentieth century got under way, this state of affairs was discerned, with the result that in the end there was hand-shaking and backslapping all around and the inauguration of a live-and-let-live policy. Although at first regarding each other as mortal enemies, these two groups of price-determination theorists later came to see in one another something resembling blood kinship. But are the underlying assumptions which classicism and neoclassicism have in common any more realistic and scientific than the specific assumptions already examined? This is a question to which we now turn.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,410

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The seven sins of pseudo-science.A. A. Derksen - 1993 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 24 (1):17 - 42.
Economic values in the configuration of science.Wenceslao J. González - 2008 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 96 (1):85-112.
Is common-sense morality self-defeating?Derek Parfit - 1979 - Journal of Philosophy 76 (10):533-545.
Varieties of pseudo-interior algebras.Barbara Klunder - 2000 - Studia Logica 65 (1):113-136.
States on pseudo MV-Algebras.Anatolij Dvurečenskij - 2001 - Studia Logica 68 (3):301-327.
Pseudo-finite homogeneity and saturation.Jörg Flum & Martin Ziegler - 1999 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 64 (4):1689-1699.
Pseudo-scientific economic doctrine.Joseph Mayer - 1936 - Philosophy of Science 3 (3):334-359.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
198 (#102,123)

6 months
4 (#799,368)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references