The Rise and fall of Popper and Lakatos in Economics

Philosophy of Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-48

  Backhouse, Roger E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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