Category Archives: Real World Economics

Issues in Methodology and Epistemology in Economics and the Social Sciences

Tony Lawson has changed our conversation November 26, 2013Edward FullbrookLeave a commentGo to comments from Edward Fullbrook The case for Lawson’s significance that I argued five years ago and appears below seems to me even truer today. Tony Lawson has become a … Continue reading →

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Don’t Ask an Economist…

“Don’t ask an economist.” from Edward Fullbrook Last year at a cocktail party at an IDEAs’s conference in India I was introduced to the recently retired editor of a leading Indian newspaper.  When he asked me what newspapers I read regularly and … Continue reading →

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