TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maki, Uskali
TI  - The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy
SN  - 9780521686860
U1  - 330.01 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Economics -Methodology
KW  - Free Enterprise
N1  - The Classical Essay in 20th Century Economic Methodology: The methodology of positive economics (1953) Milton Friedman	 Reading and Writing a Classic	 Reading the methodological essay in twentieth century economics: map of multiple perspectives   Uskali Maki	 Early drafts of Friedman's methodology essay   J. Daniel Hammond	 Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement   Uskali Maki	 Models, Assumptions, Predictions, Evidence	 The influence of Friedman's methodological essay on economics   Tom Mayer	 Did Milton Friedman's methodology license the formalist revolution?   D. Wade Hands	 Appraisal of evidence in economic methodology   Melvin Reder	 The politics of positivism: disinterested predictions from interested agents David Teira Serrano and Jes·s Zamora Bonilla	 Theoretical Context: Firm, Money, Expected Utility, Walras and Marshall	 Friedman's 1953 essay and the marginalist controversy   Roger Backhouse	 Friedman (1953) in relation to theories of the firm   Oliver Williamson	 Friedman's selection argument revisited   Jack Vromen	 Expected utility and Friedman's risky methodology   Chris Starmer	 Friedman's methodological stance: causal realism   Kevin D. Hoover	 On the right side for the wrong reason: Friedman on the Marshall-Walras divide   Michel De Vroey	 Concluding Perspectives	 The debate over F53 after 50 years   Mark Blaug	 Final word Milton Friedman
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