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Economists have long aspired to have their work accorded the status of science, and toward that end they have appropriated (or adapted) the positivist/empiricist methodologies of the natural sciences, including the ideal of value-free inquiry.’ Though philoso-phers have in recent decades drastically pruned the epistemic authority associated with science, scientists’ prestige and power in the world outside philosophy departments shows no signs of diminishing. Writing on economic methodology has become much more voluminous and philosophically sophisticated, so economists are increasingly likely to have heard the news that “positivism is dead.”2But they seem little inclined to alter their practice¡ªand there is little agreement among methodologists as to just how economic practice should be affected.
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Seiz, J.A. (1992). Gender And Economic Research. In: de Marchi, N. (eds) Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics. Recent Economic Thought, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2942-8_8
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