Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

D Wade Hands

Biographic Data

ID445019
NAMED Wade Hands
GIVEN NAMESD Wade
FAMILY NAMEHands
SIGNATUREHANDS D W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Puget Sound
ORCID0000-0001-5914-8948
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS88
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6
  • Jhet Interviews: Philip Mirowski

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Journal of the History of…•2025

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Frank Knight and behavioral economics

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•European Journal of the History…•2023

    Frank Knight was an enigmatic thinker: about economics, individual behavior more generally, ethics, epistemology, and a number of other subjects. However, his views on some topics often created tensions with his views on other topics. This paper will examine two of these Knightian tensions: his views on the relationship between homo economicus the actual human behavior and his views on the relationship between rational economic behavior and norma…

  • The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•2021•References: 31

  • Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection Reflections

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Revue de philosophie économique•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement

  • Łukasz Hardt, Economics Without Laws: Towards a New Philosophy of Economics

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•OEconomia•2019•References: 2

    This book is a critical investigation of universal natural laws in economic science—the idea that laws in economics are like scientific laws in natural science, such as the laws of Newtonian mechanics. It is both a history addressing whether economists have historically employed the idea of such laws, as well as a philosophical assessment of whether such a natural law-based approach is appropriate for economic science. Although the book is both a…

  • Revealed Preference, Afriat’s Theorem, and Falsifiability: A Review Essay on Revealed Preference Theory by Christopher Chambers and Federico Echenique

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•OEconomia•2017

  • Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2015

    Book Review| September 01 2015 Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations. By Boland, Lawrence A.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii; 276 pp. Paperback $30.95. D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (3): 541–543. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3153200 Views Icon Views Arti…

  • Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 52

    Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)-they all share common features, but there are also sharp differences. The diversity of revealed preference theory is not well understood, and one purpose of this article is to improve our historical under…

  • The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2010

    The article reviews the book "The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences," by N. Emrah Aydinonat

  • Effective Tension in Robbins' Economic Methodology

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Economica•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 17

    Lionel Robbins' Essay is one of the most influential methodological works in twentieth century economics. This said, the Essay is not philosophically seamless; it exhibits certain tensions that are not easily reconciled within any specific philosophical characterization of scientific knowledge. This paper discusses these issues, but also emphasizes that these tensions did not inhibit the influence of the Essay within economics. In fact, it is arg…

  • Popper and Lakatos in Economic Methodology

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•CHAPTER•Philosophy of Economics•2007

    D. Wade Hands (1951–) was educated at the University of Houston and then Indiana University and has taught at the University of Puget Sound since 1980. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary economic methodology. Hands was President of the History of Science Society in 2005–2006 and is currently the editor of The Journal of Economic Methodology . His most important book, Reflection without Rules , won the Spengler Book Prize from the Hi…

  • Introduction toAgreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The theory of demand, or consumer choice theory, is prominently featured in the early chapters of every microeconomics textbook—introductory, intermediate, or graduate—and has appeared in essentially the same place and in the same basic form for over a half-century. The theory’s basic idea is quite simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. It goes like this. The theory begins with the assumption that demand curves re…

  • Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Research Article| December 01 2006 Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl_1): 153–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; Integrability, Rationalizabil…

  • You want the social? You can’t handle the social! Mirowski on the secret history of scientific philosophy

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•2005

  • Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2003

    Book Review| September 01 2003 Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David Ruccio. London:Routledge, 2001. 495 pp. $140.00. D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (3): 577–581. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-3-577 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cit…

  • Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•BOOK•Reflection Without Rules•2001

    Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science. Professor Hands investigates economists' use of naturalistic and sociological paradigms to model economic phenomena and assesses the roles of pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness in discussions of economic practice before turning to a systematic exploration of…

  • Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2000

    Book Review| March 01 2000 Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey By Lawrence A. Boland. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xi; 307 pp.$65.00. D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 163–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …

  • Matching, Melioration and Rational Choice

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Theory & Psychology•1999

  • A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1998•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Research Article| December 01 1998 A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory Philip Mirowski; Philip Mirowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 260–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-Supplement-260 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…

  • Caveat Emptor: Economics and Contemporary Philosophy of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•1997•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science has changed substantially during the last few years. What was once exclusively a one-way relationship from philosophy to economics now seems to be much closer to bilateral exchange. The purpose of this paper is to examine this new relationship. First, I document the change. Second, I examine the situation within contemporary philosophy of science in order to explain why econ…

  • Conjectures and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 46

    Joseph Schumpeter opens chapter 4 of his monumental History of Economic Analysis (1954) with the distinction between Wissenschaftslehre (the science of science) and Wissenssoziologie (the sociology of science). The former, he says, starts from “logic and to some extent also from epistemology” and concerns “the general rules of procedure in use in the other individual sciences,” while the latter treats “science as a social phenomenon” (Schumpeter …

  • Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Dialogue•1995•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    Philip Kitcher's new book is very ambitious in scope, more ambitious, certainly, than any of his previous books. Unlike Kitcher's Abusing Science: The Case against Creationism (1982), this is not a book that focusses on just one single issue in contemporary science or educational policy; nor is it, like his The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983) and Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985), a book that emphasizes…

  • Blurred boundaries: Recent changes in the relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•1994•Cited by: 5•References: 11

  • Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology

    Christopher L Gilbert, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•The Economic Journal•1994•Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology Get access Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology. By (D. WADE) Hands. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993. Pp. xiv + 238. US $40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 8476 77249.) Christopher L. Gilbert Christopher L. Gilbert Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for othe…

  • More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1993•Cited by: 2

    Research Article| January 01 1993 More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 118–130. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1993-suppl_1010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; More Light on Integrability, Sy…

Next
  • A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1998•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Research Article| December 01 1998 A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory Philip Mirowski; Philip Mirowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 260–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-Supplement-260 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…

  • Second Thoughts on Lakatos

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1985•Cited by: 12•References: 32

    The article offers a re-evaluation of the applicability of Imre Lakatos' methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP) to economic theory. Presented during the Nafplion Conference in September 1974, the methodology has seen improvement. One improvement was it has been clarified and articulated. Several members of the Lakatosian school that made the articulation possible include John Worrall and Elie Zahar. Several reasons why the MSRP attrac…

  • Caveat Emptor: Economics and Contemporary Philosophy of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•1997•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science has changed substantially during the last few years. What was once exclusively a one-way relationship from philosophy to economics now seems to be much closer to bilateral exchange. The purpose of this paper is to examine this new relationship. First, I document the change. Second, I examine the situation within contemporary philosophy of science in order to explain why econ…

  • Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Dialogue•1995•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    Philip Kitcher's new book is very ambitious in scope, more ambitious, certainly, than any of his previous books. Unlike Kitcher's Abusing Science: The Case against Creationism (1982), this is not a book that focusses on just one single issue in contemporary science or educational policy; nor is it, like his The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983) and Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985), a book that emphasizes…

  • Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 52

    Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)-they all share common features, but there are also sharp differences. The diversity of revealed preference theory is not well understood, and one purpose of this article is to improve our historical under…

  • Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Research Article| December 01 2006 Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl_1): 153–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; Integrability, Rationalizabil…

  • Blurred boundaries: Recent changes in the relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•1994•Cited by: 5•References: 11

  • The Role of Crucial Counterexamples in the Growth of Economic Knowledge: Two Case Studies in the Recent History of Economic Thought

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1984•Cited by: 5•References: 22

    A ‘crucial experiment’ in science is a simple definitive empirical test which either falsifies or corroborates a scientific theory. The ideal crucial experiment excludes all but one of the theories competing as possible explanations. Even a cursory examination reveals that the history of economic science contains few, if any, such crucial experiments. There are of course a variety of well-known reasons (or some would say excuses) for this lack of…

  • Blaug's Economic Methodology

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•1984•Cited by: 4•References: 25

  • Conjectures and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 46

    Joseph Schumpeter opens chapter 4 of his monumental History of Economic Analysis (1954) with the distinction between Wissenschaftslehre (the science of science) and Wissenssoziologie (the sociology of science). The former, he says, starts from “logic and to some extent also from epistemology” and concerns “the general rules of procedure in use in the other individual sciences,” while the latter treats “science as a social phenomenon” (Schumpeter …

  • Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology

    Christopher L Gilbert, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•The Economic Journal•1994•Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology Get access Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology. By (D. WADE) Hands. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993. Pp. xiv + 238. US $40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 8476 77249.) Christopher L. Gilbert Christopher L. Gilbert Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for othe…

  • Second thoughts on ‘Second thoughts’: Reconsidering the Lakatosian progress of The general theory . ∗

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Review of Political Economy•1990•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    In my paper ‘Second thoughts on Lakatos’ (Hands, 1985) I argued that Keynes's The general theory would not be considered progressive on a strict application of Lakatosian standards of progress. I viewed this (along with other arguments in the paper) to be an indictment of Lakatos's philosophy of science since Lakatos explicitly requires a successful methodology to reconstruct the ‘best gambits’ of the science as rational. At least two authors, Gu…

  • Effective Tension in Robbins' Economic Methodology

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Economica•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 17

    Lionel Robbins' Essay is one of the most influential methodological works in twentieth century economics. This said, the Essay is not philosophically seamless; it exhibits certain tensions that are not easily reconciled within any specific philosophical characterization of scientific knowledge. This paper discusses these issues, but also emphasizes that these tensions did not inhibit the influence of the Essay within economics. In fact, it is arg…

  • More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1993•Cited by: 2

    Research Article| January 01 1993 More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 118–130. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1993-suppl_1010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; More Light on Integrability, Sy…

  • Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge

    D Wade Hands•REVIEW•The Economic Journal•1992•Cited by: 2

    Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of the modern history of economic thought, argues that those changes were not merely cosmetic: The mathematical forms of the arguments significant…

  • Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection Reflections

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Revue de philosophie économique•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement

  • Introduction toAgreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The theory of demand, or consumer choice theory, is prominently featured in the early chapters of every microeconomics textbook—introductory, intermediate, or graduate—and has appeared in essentially the same place and in the same basic form for over a half-century. The theory’s basic idea is quite simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. It goes like this. The theory begins with the assumption that demand curves re…

  • What Economics is Not: An Economist's Response to Rosenberg

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•1984•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    Alexander Rosenberg (1983) has argued, contrary to his previous work in the philosophy of economics, that economics is not science, and it is merely mathematics. The following paper argues that Rosenberg fails to demonstrate either of these two claims. The questions of the predictive weakness of modern economics and the cognitive standing of abstract economic theory are discussed in detail

  • Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

    D Wade Hands•REVIEW•Journal of Economic Issues•1977

    (1977). Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 897-899.

  • Blaug's Economic Methodology

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•1984•Cited by: 4•References: 25

  • What Economics is Not: An Economist's Response to Rosenberg

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•1984•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    Alexander Rosenberg (1983) has argued, contrary to his previous work in the philosophy of economics, that economics is not science, and it is merely mathematics. The following paper argues that Rosenberg fails to demonstrate either of these two claims. The questions of the predictive weakness of modern economics and the cognitive standing of abstract economic theory are discussed in detail

  • The Role of Crucial Counterexamples in the Growth of Economic Knowledge: Two Case Studies in the Recent History of Economic Thought

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1984•Cited by: 5•References: 22

    A ‘crucial experiment’ in science is a simple definitive empirical test which either falsifies or corroborates a scientific theory. The ideal crucial experiment excludes all but one of the theories competing as possible explanations. Even a cursory examination reveals that the history of economic science contains few, if any, such crucial experiments. There are of course a variety of well-known reasons (or some would say excuses) for this lack of…

  • Philosophy of economics

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1985

    Other| March 01 1985 Philosophy of economics W. Stegmuller, W. Balzer, and W. Spohn Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1982. Pp. viii, 306. $21.00. Douglas W. Hands Douglas W. Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-1-144 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas W. Hands; Philosop…

  • Second Thoughts on Lakatos

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1985•Cited by: 12•References: 32

    The article offers a re-evaluation of the applicability of Imre Lakatos' methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP) to economic theory. Presented during the Nafplion Conference in September 1974, the methodology has seen improvement. One improvement was it has been clarified and articulated. Several members of the Lakatosian school that made the articulation possible include John Worrall and Elie Zahar. Several reasons why the MSRP attrac…

  • Expanding the Neoclassical Vision: Comment

    William S Brown, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Review of Social Economy•1989•References: 2

  • Second thoughts on ‘Second thoughts’: Reconsidering the Lakatosian progress of The general theory . ∗

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Review of Political Economy•1990•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    In my paper ‘Second thoughts on Lakatos’ (Hands, 1985) I argued that Keynes's The general theory would not be considered progressive on a strict application of Lakatosian standards of progress. I viewed this (along with other arguments in the paper) to be an indictment of Lakatos's philosophy of science since Lakatos explicitly requires a successful methodology to reconstruct the ‘best gambits’ of the science as rational. At least two authors, Gu…

  • Metaphysics, Economics and Progress: A Comment on Glass and Johnson

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•The British Journal for the…•1992•References: 3

  • More Light and Less Heat Mirowski on Economics and the Energy Metaphor

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•1992•References: 17

    I initially approached More Heat than Light with some apprehension. This is not because I suspected that I would disagree with its main thesis but because I feared that I would find the book anticlimactic. Over the past few years, Phil Mirowski has served us a number of delightful appetizers’-so many in fact that I suspected I might tire of the taste before the main entrée appeared. These concerns were wholly unfounded. The main entrée has finall…

  • Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge

    D Wade Hands•REVIEW•The Economic Journal•1992•Cited by: 2

    Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of the modern history of economic thought, argues that those changes were not merely cosmetic: The mathematical forms of the arguments significant…

  • More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1993•Cited by: 2

    Research Article| January 01 1993 More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 118–130. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1993-suppl_1010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; More Light on Integrability, Sy…

  • Blurred boundaries: Recent changes in the relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•1994•Cited by: 5•References: 11

  • Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology

    Christopher L Gilbert, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•The Economic Journal•1994•Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology Get access Testing, Rationality, and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology. By (D. WADE) Hands. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993. Pp. xiv + 238. US $40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 8476 77249.) Christopher L. Gilbert Christopher L. Gilbert Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for othe…

  • Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Dialogue•1995•Cited by: 7•References: 17

    Philip Kitcher's new book is very ambitious in scope, more ambitious, certainly, than any of his previous books. Unlike Kitcher's Abusing Science: The Case against Creationism (1982), this is not a book that focusses on just one single issue in contemporary science or educational policy; nor is it, like his The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983) and Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985), a book that emphasizes…

  • Caveat Emptor: Economics and Contemporary Philosophy of Science

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•1997•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science has changed substantially during the last few years. What was once exclusively a one-way relationship from philosophy to economics now seems to be much closer to bilateral exchange. The purpose of this paper is to examine this new relationship. First, I document the change. Second, I examine the situation within contemporary philosophy of science in order to explain why econ…

  • Conjectures and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 46

    Joseph Schumpeter opens chapter 4 of his monumental History of Economic Analysis (1954) with the distinction between Wissenschaftslehre (the science of science) and Wissenssoziologie (the sociology of science). The former, he says, starts from “logic and to some extent also from epistemology” and concerns “the general rules of procedure in use in the other individual sciences,” while the latter treats “science as a social phenomenon” (Schumpeter …

  • A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•1998•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Research Article| December 01 1998 A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory Philip Mirowski; Philip Mirowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 260–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-Supplement-260 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…

  • Matching, Melioration and Rational Choice

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Theory & Psychology•1999

  • Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2000

    Book Review| March 01 2000 Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey By Lawrence A. Boland. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xi; 307 pp.$65.00. D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 163–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …

  • Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•BOOK•Reflection Without Rules•2001

    Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of science. Professor Hands investigates economists' use of naturalistic and sociological paradigms to model economic phenomena and assesses the roles of pragmatism, discourse, and situatedness in discussions of economic practice before turning to a systematic exploration of…

  • Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2003

    Book Review| September 01 2003 Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David Ruccio. London:Routledge, 2001. 495 pp. $140.00. D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (3): 577–581. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-3-577 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cit…

  • You want the social? You can’t handle the social! Mirowski on the secret history of scientific philosophy

    Open Access•D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•Studies in History and Philosophy…•2005

  • Introduction toAgreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century

    Philip Mirowski, D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    The theory of demand, or consumer choice theory, is prominently featured in the early chapters of every microeconomics textbook—introductory, intermediate, or graduate—and has appeared in essentially the same place and in the same basic form for over a half-century. The theory’s basic idea is quite simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. It goes like this. The theory begins with the assumption that demand curves re…

  • Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory

    D Wade Hands•ARTICLE•History of Political Economy•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Research Article| December 01 2006 Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory D. Wade Hands D. Wade Hands Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl_1): 153–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation D. Wade Hands; Integrability, Rationalizabil…

Economic Theory and Institutions (29 works) · Economics (23 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Positive economics (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works)

Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae