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Author_Robert A. Solo
Cantus Firmus
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Central Police Station
Chemical Mechanisms
Clean Slate
Cooperative Research Associations
Deep Blue Sea
empirical validation methods
Energy Conservation
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evidence
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Friedman's Essay
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Inferential Prediction
Keynes
Kuhnian revolutions
Laissezfaire Capitalism
Logik Der Forschung
Mainstream Paradigm
Mathematical Expression
mechanics
Monopolistic Competition
Mr A
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political economy theory
popper's
Popperian falsification
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quantum
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Reference Universe
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scientific paradigms in economics
scientific realism
Transient Ideas
Unended Quest
Uninitiated
University Of Wisconsin
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780873328999
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The philosophy of science proposes criteria to delineate true science and a theory to explain its progress. As a graduate student under the supervision of Lionel Robbins and Karl Popper, Solo first challenged the viability of those criteria and that theory in relation to economics and the social sciences. Here he explains how the foundations of that philosophy have been eroded through the advent of quantum mechanics and through Kuhn's "Structures of Scientific Revolution", and demonstrates its irrelevance to a social science that would comprehend social reality and contribute to the formation of social policy. He proposes a different mode of perception, and different rules for determining the acceptability of statement, a different language of discourse, and a different structure of organization than presently prevails.
Robert A Solo Emeritus Professor of Economics Michigan State University, East Lansing
