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Economic Methodology in a Nutshell Daniel M. Hausman The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Spring, 1989), pp. 115-127.

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Journal of Economic Perspectives- Volume 3, Number 2-Spring 1989- Pages 115-127

Economic Methodology in a Nut shell

Daniel M. Hausman

he literature on economic methodology is concerned mainly with questions of theory confirmation or disconfirmation or empirical theory choice. The central question is usually, "How one can tell whether a particular bit of economics is good science?"...