I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making...

The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the main issues and of the most important trends in economic methodology. It is organized around the generalized Mill?s problem : does economics obey the methodological standards of empirical science ? The study is divided in two parts. The first...