0415109116.Routledge.Beyond.Positivism.Economic.Methodology.in.the.Twentieth.Century.Dec.1994.pdf

Beyond Positivism

Revised edition

Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become

established as one of the definitive statements on economic

methodology. The book’s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of

pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work

on methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since

its publication. This edition contains a new preface outlining the major

developments in the area since the book’s first appearance.

The book provides the first comprehensive treatment of twentieth

century philosophy of science which emphasizes the issues relevant to

economics. It proceeds to demonstrate this relevance by reviewing

some of the key debates in the area. Having concluded that

positivism has to be rejected, the author examines possible alternative

bases for economic methodology. Arguing that there is no single best

method, he advocates methodological pluralism.

Bruce Caldwell is presently Professor of Economics at the University

of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1981–82 he was a post-doctoral

fellow at New York University and he has participated in numerous

seminars on methodology and presented papers at the meetings of the

American and Southern Economic Association and the History of

Economics Society. He has also published papers on methodology in,

among others, the American Economic Review, History of Political

Economy, Southern Economic Journal and Journal of Economic

Issues .

Beyond Positivism

Economic Methodology in the

Twentieth Century

Revised edition

Bruce J.Caldwell

London and New York

First published 1982

by the Academic Division of Unwin Hyman Ltd

Third impression 1991

Revised edition published 1994

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Caldwell, Bruce J.

Beyond positivism.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Economics—Methodology. I. Title.

[HB131.C37 1984] 330 ¢ .01 ¢ 8 83–25672

ISBN 0-203-56552-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-56664-5 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-10911-6 (pbk)

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