Economic methodology is dead - long live economic methodology: thirteen theses on the new economic methodology

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-63

  Hands, D Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

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EID: 12844289240     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780010022839     Document Type: Article

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