Rosenberg's “Lakatosian Consolations for Economists”: Comment

Eliot Roy Weintraub

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Rosenberg (1986) argues that economists have embraced the methodology of scientific research programs, and the writings of Imre Lakatos (1978), at the same time that philosophers have been abandoning that approach. According to Rosenberg, the methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP) appears to allow some work in economics, which is neither tested nor testable, to be “scientific” nonetheless. That is, MSRP justifies some current practices which look hard to justify on strict falsificationist, or dogmatic positivist, grounds.

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1978The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes 1986General Equilibrium Analysis: Studies in Appraisal.1988Finding a satisfactory empirical model 1986Lakatosian Consolations for Economics 1986Making a Case When Theory is Unfalsifiable

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