For over two centuries since the first emergence of modern political economy, right down to the early decade of the 20th century, there were leading or important economists, who were also leading or important philosophers: Locke, Hume, Smith, J.S. Mill, Jevons, and Sidgwick and the Keynes's are...

See Abstract for Part I (Journal of Economic Methodology 3(2); 187, 1996). Part II is concerned with promoting greater clarity regarding the concept of economic theory.

This collection of essays examines the methodological problems confronting economists in the face of two major developments in the second half of the twentieth century. The first is the vast increase in the number and variety of writings on the methodology or ‘philosophy’ of economics,...