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A brief note concerning Hayek's non-standard conception of knowledge

Scheall, Scott - 2018

Whatever F.A. Hayek meant by "knowledge" could not have been the justified true belief conception common in the Western intellectual tradition from at least the time of Plato onward. In this brief note, I aim to uncover and succinctly state Hayek's unique definition of knowledge.

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McCarthyism and the mathematization of economics

Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016 - Version: February 19, 2016

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines - e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

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Sidney Weintraub and American post Keynesianism : 1938-1970

Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2014

Sidney Weintraub (1914 - 1983) was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. A distinguished economic theorist (and the author’s father), he was a co‐founder of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and the leading figure in the US in the early...

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In search of lost reason

Marouzi, Soroush - 2024

Cambridge-Bloomsbury intelligentsia, steering it away from an optimistic view toward a pessimistic one. The conceptualization of … Keynes produced some of their most notable works within this evolving intellectual context. They followed the interwar … conceptual commitment concerning what constitutes human reason and rationality. I show that Ramsey and Keynes developed their …

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Following artifacts

Halsmayer, Verena - 2018 - Draft, February 2018

The essay discusses the historiographical strategy of "following artifacts" in the history of contemporary economics. Following models as artifacts means (1) to follow the shifts and changes in their form and meaning; (2) to follow the ideas, theories, fictions, and imaginary worlds they provoke;...

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On the method appropriate to Hayek studies

Scheall, Scott - 2018

The method appropriate to the historical and conceptual investigation of Hayek’s ideas is implicit in his own writings on the methodology of disciplines that study complex phenomena. The phenomena of Hayek’s career are complex phenomena requiring a method appropriate to this complexity.

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Karl Brunner's philosophy of science : macroeconomics through the lens of logical empiricism

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2018

Best known as a monetary economist and prominent proponent of monetarism, Karl Brunner was deeply knowledgeable about the philosophy of science and attempted to explicitly integrate logical empiricist thinking, derived in some measure from his engagement with the work of the philosopher Hans...

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Ricardian inference : Charles S. Peirce, economics, and scientific method

Hoover, Kevin D.; Wible, James R. - 2017 - Revised, 10 July 2017

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed...

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A Hayekian explanation of Hayek's "epistemic turn"

Scheall, Scott - 2014

The present essay investigates F.A. Hayek's epistemology and his methodology of sciences of complex phenomena for implications relevant to an explanation of Hayek's own socalled "epistemic turn." The thesis defended here is that Hayek's dissatisfaction with his technical economics - in...

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Lesser degrees of explanation : some implications of F.A. Hayek’s methodology of sciences of complex phenomena

Scheall, Scott - 2013

From the early-1950s on, F.A. Hayek was concerned with the development of a methodology of sciences that study systems of complex phenomena. Hayek argued that the knowledge that can be acquired about such systems is, in virtue of their complexity (and the comparatively narrow boundaries of human...

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