there's no such thing as positivism

Sam Pawlett epawlett at uniserve.com
Wed Dec 30 21:01:18 PST 1998


"Fellows, Jeffrey" wrote:


> I also like E.K.Hunt's "Empiricism and Rationalism" piece (1970s) which I
> think was in the Eastern Economic Review.
>
> Jeff
>

I forgot to mention that feminists might enjoy the collection _Beyond Economic Man_ ed. Nancy Folbre. Folbre has recently turned her eye to empirical work. One page of her _Field Guide to the U.S. Economy_ is worth a bookcase of theory. Also, _The Open Philosophy and its Enemies_ by M.Cornforth is a good marxist critique of Popper.

S. Pawlett.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Pawlett [mailto:epawlett at uniserve.com]
> There's lots of work on
> the positivism in social science question. My favorite is Martin Hollis/Ed
> Nell _Rational Economic Man_ and Hollis _the Philosophy of Social Science.
> What's the old saying? Neoclassical economics; you have to be smart enough
> to
> understand it and stupid enough to believe it.
>
> Sam Pawlett.
> >
> >



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