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Is Economics Empirical Knowledge?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Steven Rappaport
Steven Rappaport
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De Anza College
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Alexander Rosenberg has played a large role in creating the philosophy of economics as a distinct area of philosophy. But since the publication of Microeconomic Laws in 1976, Professor Rosenberg's thinking about economics has been casting the subject in an increasingly uncomplimentary light. This development is reflected in Rosenberg's new book Economics–Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? In this stimulating work Rosenberg endorses the view that economics does not constitute scientific empirical knowledge. He says:

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 137 - 158
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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