Thorstein Veblen rejected the mainstream economics’ homo economicus typology. Instead of this, he spokes of the existence of an individual acting in the context of the habits of thought. This human typology has some harmful behaviors to the society. In this context, it could be said that...

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,...