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Economics and Psychology: Lessons for Our Own Day from the Early Twentieth Century

@article{Lewin1996EconomicsAP,
  title={Economics and Psychology: Lessons for Our Own Day from the Early Twentieth Century},
  author={Shira B. Lewin},
  journal={Journal of Economic Literature},
  year={1996},
  volume={34},
  pages={1293-1323}
}
  • S. Lewin
  • Published 1996
  • Economics
  • Journal of Economic Literature
This paper studies the historical roots of the relationship between economics and psychology, and places recurring controversies between these disciplines in the context of the relationship between economics and the other human sciences, especially sociology. We focus on the formative years of contemporary economics, the early twentieth century, when psychologists and institutionalist economists attacked the "unscientific" nature of economics. Economists responded by (mistakenly) renouncing… 
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