Inventing paradigms, monopoly, methodology, and mythology at 'Chicago': Nutter, Stigler, and Milton Friedman

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-171

  Schliesser, Eric ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

George Stigler; Milton Friedman; Philosophy of Economics; Proxies in science; Thomas Kuhn; Warren Nutter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856681222     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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