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Journal of Political Economy Vol. 91 No. 4 1983

Nobel Lecture: The Process and Progress of Economics

George J. Stigler

Abstract

The lecture focuses on the reasons that new ideas are accepted or rejected by a science. A distinction is drawn between prescientific and scientific stages of a discipline. The diverse fates of new ideas are illustrated by a variety of episodes in the history of economics, including the economics of information and the theory of economic regulation.

Volume
91
Issue
4
Pages
529-545
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib

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