Reviews: Milton’s Positivism Found Wanting [Book Review]

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (3):398-419 (2011)
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Milton Friedman’s 1953 essay created controversy and consternation amongst economists. It provided a prescription, based on empirically generated predictive success, of how to do economics, yet many saw it as a concession of the search for truth and theoretical beauty within the discipline. This article reviews a 50th anniversary festschrift devoted to views of the essay. The purpose of the volume is to provide today’s reader with the essay, responses, and a guide to interpreting it. The volume is selective and several contributors have their own agendas, but the feeling of tumult the essay still engenders is nicely conveyed

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Essays in Positive Economics.Milton Friedman - 1953 - University of Chicago Press.
Consilience and complexity.Edward O. Wilson - 1998 - Complexity 3 (5):17-21.
Foundations of Economic Analysis.Paul Anthony Samuelson - 1948 - Science and Society 13 (1):93-95.

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