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Popper’s Canon, Kuhn’s Paradigm and Economics

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Chapter 2 described the character of positivist thought and its culmination in the canon. What has been the relationship of economics to positivist thought and the canon?

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Robert A Solo (Emeritus Professor of Economics)

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Solo, R.A. (1991). Popper’s Canon, Kuhn’s Paradigm and Economics. In: The Philosophy of Science, and Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12224-0_3

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