Preferences and Positivist Methodology in Economics.
I distinguish several doctrines that economic methodologists have found attractive, all of which have a positivist flavor. One of these is the doctrine that preference assignments in economics are just shorthand descriptions of agents' choices. Although most of these doctrines are problematic, the l...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 192 - 213 |
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