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Methodus

No. 1	December 1989
Articles are combined in five page groups.
CONTENTS
		Page
Group #1
Origin of the Network		1
From The Editor		2
Statement of Objectives		2
Founding Members, Area Correspondents, Officers		3
Group #2
Taking method Seriously    H.K.H. Woo		4
Where to Begin?    E. Meehan		8
Group #3
Notes on Methodology    K.E. Boulding		9
Attribution of Causality and Responsibility    W.J. Samuels & J.E. Biddle		9
Policy Simulations with Econometric Models    T. Mayor		13
Program versus Project Aid: A Role Reversal    P.P. Streeten		14
Group #4
John Stuart Mackenzie on Method    J.P. Henderson		15
Book Notes: The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric		15
Publications, Papers and Manuscripts Received		20

Methodus

Vol. 2 No. 1	June 1990
Contents		Page
From The Editor		2
My Conception of Economic Science
M. Allais		5
Positive and Normative COnflicts in the Expanding Domain of Economics: Induced Distortions and Rules
P. Nicolaides		8
Taxonomy as a Source of Error
K.E. Boulding		17
Metamodeling
E.J. Meeham		22
Economics, Science and Society
D.R. Fusfeld		30
On the Notion of Epistemic Opportunity Cost
H.K.H. Woo		33
Comments on the Rhetoric Projects in Methodology
J.B. Davis		38
“New” Growth Theory: Some Methodological Issues
N.J. Wulwick		40
American Responses to the methodenstreit of the late Nineteenth Century: A Centenary Post-Mortem
W.J. Barber		43
A Note on Menger’s Philosophy of Science
W. Meyer		46
Observing by Watching: Putting People Back to Methodology
S. Maital		48
Book Notes
A. Wong		50
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Constitution of the Network		53
Minutes of the First Executive Committte Meeting		56
Reports from Area Correspondents		57
Conference News		58
Publication News		59
Publications, Papers and Manuscripts Received		60
Letter to the Editor		61

Methodus

Vol. 2 No. 2	December 1990
Contents		Page
From The Editor		2
Refutability
J.J. Klant		6
On Causation, the Principle of Unforeseen Consequences, and the Matrix of Human Action: The Case of the Iraqi Conquest of Kuwait
W.J. Samuel		9
Form and Content in Appraising Recent Economic Developments
D. Colander		16
Metaphilosophy and Methodology in Economics
N. Jacobi		23
Interpretive Reasoning and the Study of Social Life
P.J. Boettke		35
Macrofoundations for Microanalysis
J. Gerber, H. Singh & R. Frantz		46
Qualitative Economics: New perspectives
K.P. Lin & A.M. Farley		50
The Impossibility of Consistent Preferences: Methodological Implications
P. Nicolaides		56
Scientific Reduction, Reductionism and Metaphysical Reduction – A Broad View of Economic Methodology
H.K.H. Woo		61
Toward an Interpretive Economics: Some Hermeneutic Issues
D.L. Prychitko		69
Time as a Third Dimension in the One Period Neoclassical Monopoly Pricing Model
C.C. Langlois		73
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Communications		76
Work on Progress		82
Conference News		84
Reports from Area Correspondents		86
Papers Received		88

Methodus

Vol. 3 No. 1	June 1991
Contents		Page
From The Editor		3
“Has Formalization in Economics Gone too Far?”
Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions?
D.N. McCloskey		6
In Defense of Formalization in Economics
D.W. Katzner		17
Comment: Has Formalization Gone Too Far?
B.J. Caldwell		27
Discussion Notes of “Formalization”
R.M. Solow		30
“How Scientific is Economics?”
A Note on the Meaning of “Scientific”
K.E. Boulding		32
Science-Schmience
E.J. Meehan		34
Economics, Science, and the Positive vs. Normative Distinction
J.E. Leightner		42
Law-Fact Relativity and the Bounded Scientificity of Economics
H.K.H. Woo		44
Economic Theory and Explanation: A Constructive Empiricist Perspective
T.A. Boylan and P.F. O’Gorman		53
Credible Economics
J. Connor		58
Articles and Short Papers
Plausibility
J.J. Klant		64
Economic Methodology: Heterogeneity and Relevance
A. Sen		67
Are there any Signs of Postmodernism with Economics?
S.C. Dow		81
New Controversies in Evolutionary Biology: Lessons for Economists?
J.M. Gowdy		86
On “Metaphilosophy and Methodology in Economics”
A. Vilks		90
Alfred Marshall’s Methodology
J.D. Hammond		95
Economic Method and Economic History: An Historian’s View
J.R. Fisher		102
What is Wrong with Economics is What is Wrong with its Methodological Foundations
M.I. Ansari		108
New Developments in the Methodology of Supply
G.P. Lima		114
Supply and Demand of Economic Theory
P. Söderbaum		124
Dependence of Research Methodology on Laboratory Tools in Economics
B. Bidabad		129
Interview
An Interview with Arjo Klamer
Y.B. Choi		131
Book Review Column
Statement of Editorial Policy		138
A Review of Philip Mirowski’s More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics
K.D. Hoover		139
A Review of L.A. Boland’s The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson
J. Birner		146
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Reports from Area Correspondents		155
Conference News		157
Publication News		159
Papers Received		159

Methodus

Vol. 3 No. 2	December 1991
Contents		Page
From The Editor		3
Articles
The Theory and Practice of Economic Methodology
Lawrence A. Boland		6
Our Mad Rush to Measure: How did We Get into This Mess?
Donald W. Katzner		18
Economics as Science and/or Social Science
Norton Jacobi		27
Economic Theory & Realsim: Outlines of a Reconstruction
Rajani K. Kanth		37
Reflexivity
Joop J. Klant		46
Positive Economics and the Role of Econometrics
J. Lynne Evans		48
The Methodological Challenge of Development Economics
Hans C. Blomqvist and Mats Lundahl
Perception & Interest in Population Economics
M. Assenmarcher		59
The Suppression of Evolutionary Approaches in Economics: The Case of Marshall and Monopolistic Competition
Nicolai Juul Foss		65
Marshall’s Partial Equilibrium Analysis: a Methodological Note
Andrea Salanti		73
Keynes’s Dichotomy: A Methodological Escape for Theoretic Revolution
Richard X. Chase		79
Fritz Machlup and Marginalism: A Reevaluation
Richard N. Langolois and Roger Koppl		86
Metaphilosophy and Methodology in Economics: Reply to Arnis Vilks
Norton Jacobi		103
Explanation, Ontology and Reductionism in Economics: A Constructive Empiricist Perspective
Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O’Gorman		107
A Note on the Possibility of a Pure Theory of Choice?
Michel Rosier		111
The Purposes of Political Economy
H.W. Arndt		113
Announcement
Symposium on Political Economy		117
Interview
An interview with Kevin Hoover		118
Book Review Column
A Review of Deborah A. Redman’s Economics and the Philosophy of Science
Alan Nelson		128
What is the Use of Social Science? A Review of Charles E. Lindblom’s Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society
Harry Redner		131
Let’s be Serious about Methodology in Econometrics: Review of The Limits of Economics by A.C. Barnell and J.L. Evans
Aris Spanos		137
Friedman’s Stance Towards Economic Orthodoxy: A Review of Hirsch and de Marchi’s Milton Friedmand, Economics in Theory and Practice
Maarten C.W. Janseen		148
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Reports from Area Correspondents		154
Letters from Book Series Editor		156
Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting		159
Obituary		160
Papers Received		161

Methodus

Vol. 4 No. 1	June 1992
Contents		Page
From The Editor		3
Symposium
“The Meaning and Purposes of Political Economy”
Purpose, Method and Theory in the New Political Economy: A Response to H.W. Arndt		6
Stephen Haggard
Taking Political Economy Seriously		11
Geoffrey Brennan
What is Political Economy?		16
Peter Groenwegen
The Political Economy Family: A Metaphor		19
Jonathan E. Leightner and Jeanne L. Jensen
The Meaning of Political Economy: A Note		22
George Rosen
Two Concepts of Political Economy		24
Derek T. Healey
Political Economy or Political economy: An Illustratice Guide to the Meaning of Political Economy Using Venn Diagrams		26
Patrick A. McNutt
A Post-Keynesian Comment		30
G.C. Harcourt
The Meaning and Purposes of Political Economy: A Schumpeterian Framework		31
Richard X. Chase
Was Karl Marx a Political Economist (or Just an Economist)? Class Power in Relations to the Entry Points of Capital		35
Elias L. Khalil
The Political Economy of Marx’s Theory of the Falling Rate of Profit: Methodological Considerations		44
Stephen Cullenberg
The Psychology of Political Economy		55
John Quiggin
Articles and Short Papers
Surprising Results		58
Richard A. Levins and Dona D. Warren
The Constructivist Critique of Economic Methodology		65
Roger E. Backhouse
Atomism, Identity Criteria, and Impossibility Logic		83
John B. Davis
Economic Theory of Structure and Change		88
Mauro Baranzini and Roberto Scazzieri
Mature Capitalism: Reflextions on the Organized Market Economy		93
Alain Bienaymé
Fox, Hedgehog, and Owl: Three Temperaments in Economic Discourse		101
Elias L. Khalil
Evolutionism in Natural Sciences and Social Sciences: On Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Economics		110
Gerhard Hanappi
Friedman’s Methodological Stance and Popper’s Situational Logic		118
Robert Nadeau
The Keynesian Revolution from a Philosophy of Science Perspective: Revolutionary or Evolutionary		126
Mark Pernecky
Time and Cost: Remedying the Inadequacies of the Received Wisdom		135
Alan Abouchar
The Basic Entities of Economy		149
Asher Idan and Marcelo Dascal
Book Review Column
A Review of R.J. Epstein’s History of Econometrics and M.S. Morgan’s The History of Econometric Ideas		154
Robert L. Basman and Nancy J. Wulwick
A Review of New Keynesian Economics edited by N. Gregory Mankiw and David Romer		166
David Colander
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Reports from Area Correspondents		171
Conference News		172
Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting		175
Papers Received		175
Letter to the Editor		177

Methodus

Volume 4   Number 2	December 1992
Contents		Page
From The Editor		1
Articles
Falsification as a Limiting Case in the Methodology of Epistemic Accounting System.
Henry K.H. Woo		6
Price Theory as Physics: The Cartesian Influence on Walras
Roger Koppl		17
Economics and Biology: Eight Areas of Research
Elias L. Khalil		29
Keynes’ Partial Revolution: The Roles of Professionalization and Political Legitimation
Mark Pernecky		46
Communications
Roger Backhouse’s Straw Herring
E. Roy Weintraub		53
Rejoinder: Why Methodology Matters
Roger E. Backhouse		58
Other Papers
Rationality and Economic Behavior
Daniel R. Fusfeld		63
On Altruism and Cooperation
M. Teresa Lunati		69
Investment Decisions as Choice under Uncertainty
Cynthia M. Browning		76
Economic and Evolutionary Theories, Sociality, and the Origins of Economic Growth
John R. Fisher		88
Obscuring the Normative: How the Texts Evaluate Monopoistic Competition
David George		96
The Theory versus the Practice of Methodology
Jonathan E. Leightner		105
Announcement
Symposium on Economics and Biology		107
Book Review Column
Thick as a Brick
Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra		108
On the Cynicism of Value and the Value of Cynicism
Harry Render		112
Are We All Convinced Methodological Individualists Now?
Jack Vromen		121
A Promising View on the Growth of Knowledge and Economic Prospects
Naomi Moldofsky		127
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Book Notes/Call for Papers		135
Reports from Area Correspondents		136
Minutes of General Meeting		139
Papers Received/Omission		140
Letter to the Editor		141

Methodus

Vol. 5   No. 1	June 1993
Contents		Page
Introducing A New Journal		3
Articles
Why Economists Can’t Read
Craig Freedman		6
Alexandria and Mathematical Economics
Gordon Tullock		24
The Conservatism of programme Continuity: Criticism of lakatosian Methodology in Economics
Bart Nooteboom		31
“Empirical Content” and Formal Economic Theory
Arnis Vilks		47
Methodological Principles of Institutional Political Economy: Holism, Evolution and Contradiction
Phillip Anthony O’Hara		51
Symposium on “Economics and Biology”
Can Biology Inspire Economists?
Alex Viskovatoff		72
Theoretical Links between Economics and Evolutionary Biology
Joseph Loreato		79
The Exosomatic Mode of Human Evolution and a Clarification of Nicholas Georgeseu-Roegen’s Thoughts on Entropy, the Economic Process, Dialectics and Evolution
Kozo Mayumi		88
Natural Selection and Economics
Maurice Lagueux		93
Cycles and Evolution in Ecology and Economics
J. Barkley Rosser Jr.		101
Frustrated Physicists x Baffled Biologists Yields Giant Hybrid Delphian Economists ???
Hans Larsen		104
The Implications of Puntuated Equilibrium for Economic Theory and Policy
John M. Gowdy		111
The Software Market as a Complex Evolving System
Ben Goertzel		114
Economic Applications in Biology
Gordon Tullock		122
“Punctuated Equilibrium” and Economic Research
Albert Somit		124
Discussion of Elias Khalil’s “Economics and Biology: Eight Areas of Research”
S.N. Salthe		126
Book Review Column
Rhetoric and Normativism: An Idiosyncratic Appraisal from the Standpoint of the History of Economic Thought
Mark Perlman		129
Does Theory of Rationality Need Folk Psychology?
Elias L. Khalil		140
David versus the Goliaths
Steven Pressman		144
In Search of a “New” Paradigm in Economics
Hans C. Blomqvist		147
Lakatos Again
Daniel M. Hausman		150
Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file.
Reports from Area Correspondents		154
Papers Received		156
Obituary		157
Call for Book Proposals		158
Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting		159
Letter to Membership		160