Title: John Hicks and the methodology of economics
Abstract: Sir John Hicks's career in economics spans more than fifty years, in the course of which he has published fourteen books, including six collections of almost one hundred essays. In some of these, particularly Value and Capital (1939) and A Revision of Demand Theory (1956), there are hints of Hicks's general attitude to the nature of economics, but it is only recently that he has become more explicit about his views on the methodology of economics. A 1976 essay on ““Revolutions” in Economics” voiced doubts about the applicability of Lakatos's philosophy of science to economics; the opening and closing chapters of Causality in Economics (1979) threw up similar doubts about the wider question of empirical testing in economics; and, finally, an essay written in 1983 with the pointed title of “A Discipline Not a Science” decisively parted company with all varieties of empiricism, Popperianism, falsifiability, or call it what you will, in economics.
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-08-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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