In a famous essay in Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period (1978), the historian of science Susan Faye Cannon explored the notion of "Humboldtian science" to characterize the way of working of some of the great Victorian scientists, such as John Herschel and Charles Darwin. This essay...

Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics : inductive or deductive science? -- 3. Economics and statistics -- 4. Business-cycle research : the rise of modelling -- 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen : the dramatist and the model-builder -- 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric...

Introduction: Taking structure seriously -- Structure and its measurement in econometrics -- Theory, structure and models -- Two strands of demand analysis -- Trygve Haavelmo and measuring the structure of the consumption function -- Milton Friedman and the emergence of the permanent income...