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"The Nature and Significance of Economic Science" in Recent Discussion

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1933 47(3), 377
I. Suffocation by analytical definition, 377. — II. Rationality and the Individualist Exchange Economy, 387. — III. Scientific Precision and "the" Stationary State, 391. — IV. Pseudo-Positivism and the doctrine of "the logical gap, " 401. — V. The Mecca of twentieth century economics, 408. "… One day in looking over his books he discovered a remarkable law. For every item on the credit side an equal item appeared somewhere else on the debit side. ‘Ha!’ said the Bursar, ‘I have discovered one of the great laws controlling the college. It is a perfect and exact law of the real world. Credit must be called plus and debit minus; and so we have the law of conservation of £.s.d. This is the true way to find out things, and there is no limit to what may ultimately be discovered by this scientific method. I will pay no more heed to the superstitions held by some of the Fellows as to a beneficent spirit called the King or evil spirits called the University Commissioners. I have only to go on in this way and I shall succeed in understanding why prices are always going up.’" The Nature of the Physical World.

Equilibrium Economics and Business-Cycle Theory: A Commentary

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1930 45(1), 40
I. Dr. Kuznets' methodological scepticism, 40. — II. Lederer, Loewe, and Carrel on equilibrium economics; the empiricorealist as circular reasoner, 42. — III. The equilibrium concept and economic dynamics, 55. — IV. Rosenstein-Rodan "discovers" orthodox economic theory, 63. — V. Business cycles and the Laws of Chance, 67. — VI. The program of Empirico-Realism provides neither a synthesis nor a call to economic theorists to abandon their evil courses, 81. — VII. The real problem of economic dynamics, 86.