CONTENTS
Prologue Methodology vs Applied Methodology = 1
Part ⅠApplications of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation
1 Economic understanding and understanding economics = 17
2 On the methodology of economic model building = 39
3 Implementing the Popper-Samuelson demarcation in economics = 64
Part Ⅱ Popper-Samuleson Demarcation vs the Truth Status of Models
4 Conventionalism and economic theory : methodological controversy in the 1960s = 87
5 Methodology as an exercise in economic analysis = 99
Part Ⅲ Exploring the Limits of the Popper-Samuelson Demarcation
6 Uninformative mathematical economic models = 119
7 On the impossibility of testability in modern economics = 129
8 Model specifications, stochasticism and convincing tests in economics = 141
Epilogue Methodology after Samuelson : Lessons for Methodologist = 167
Bibliography = 179
Names Index = 189
Subject Index = 191
