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Rerum Cognoscere Causas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Frank Hahn
Frank Hahn
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Universities of Cambridge and Siena
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Professor Hausman has written an interesting and instructive book. Though I am by no means favourably disposed to methodology for economists, (its results seem to have been pretty disastrous), I found reading Hausman enjoyable and I came away having learned things worth learning. But not all is well, largely because Hausman is a philosopher first and an economist a poor second. There are also important questions where one would have expected philosophic help which are not asked at all.

Type
Symposium: The Separate and Inexact Science of Economics by Daniel M. Hausman
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1996 , pp. 183 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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