On Operationalisms and Economics
@article{Hands2004OnOA, title={On Operationalisms and Economics}, author={D. Wade Hands}, journal={Journal of Economic Issues}, year={2004}, volume={38}, pages={953 - 968} }
Most writers on economic methodology tell essentially the same story about "operationalism." Operationalism was the philosophy of science popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Percy Bridgman; the main text was his Logic of Modern Physics, originally published in 1927, but a number of different variants of the program appeared in the literature during the period 1930-1950. There was never a definitive rejection of the program, but because of technical difficulties and also because of…
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