Economics and laudan's normative naturalism: Bad news from instrumental rationality's front line

Social Epistemology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-152

  Wade Hands, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

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EID: 85011135738     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691729608578811     Document Type: Article

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