Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Methodology

Routledge (1995)
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Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the debate on economic methodology. They strike a reasonable middle ground between the extremes of scientific realism and the rhetoric of economics.

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