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Submissions from 1999

The Poverty of Economics in Explaining Poverty among Women and Children, Kate Stirling and Mary Beckman

Submissions from 1998

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Review of: Rationality, Allocation, and Reproduction by Vivian Walsh, Douglas Wade Hands

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Discussion, D. Wade Hands

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Reflexivity, D. Wade Hands

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Relativism, D. Wade Hands

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Scientific Explanation, D. Wade Hands

Sociaal Realisme Binnen het Huidige Wetenschapsonderzoek, D. Wade Hands

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Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, D. Wade Hands

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A Paradox of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory, D. Wade Hands and Philip Mirowski

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Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream, D. Wade Hands and Philip Mirowski

A Paradox Of Budgets: The Postwar Stabilization Of American Neoclassical Demand Theory, Philip E. Mirowski and Douglas Wade Hands

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The Performance Of Village Intermediaries In Rural Credit Delivery Under Changing Penalty Regimes: Evidence From Senegal, Matthew Warning and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Submissions from 1997

Frank Knight's Pluralism, Douglas Wade Hands

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Caveat Emptor: Economics and Contemporary Philosophy of Science, D. Wade Hands

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Comments on Scazzieri, D. Wade Hands

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Conjectures and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought, D. Wade Hands

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Empirical Realism as Meta-Method: Tony Lawson on Neoclassical Economics, D. Wade Hands

Frank Knight’s Pluralism, D. Wade Hands

The Efficacy of an Assigned Vehicle Program for Reducing Crime: A Public Policy Cost-Benefit Decision, Bruce Mann, Douglas E. Goodman, and William H. Baarsma

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Competition policy for developing countries: A long-run, entry-based approach, Ross C. Singleton

Submissions from 1996

Doing Economic Research: Essays On The Applied Methodology Of Economics, Douglas Wade Hands

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Economics and Laudan’s Normative Naturalism: Bad News from Instrumental Rationality's Front Line, D. Wade Hands

Karl Popper on the Myth of the Framework: Lukewarm Popperians + 1, Unrepentant Popperians - 1; Review of Karl Popper’s The Myth of the Framework, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: Doing Economic Research: Essays on the Applied Methodology of Economics, D. Wade Hands

Review of: Idealization VI: Idealization in Economics, D. Wade Hands

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When Lemons Are Better Than Lemonade: The Case Against Mandatory Used Car Warranties, Bruce Mann and Thomas J. Holdych

Submissions from 1995

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Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of Science, D. Wade Hands

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The Methodology of Empirical Science Economics: A Closer Look, D. Wade Hands

The Philosophy of Natural Science Takes an Economic Turn: Review of Philip Kitcher’s The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions, D. Wade Hands

Child Support Patterns in Washington State: 1993-1994, Kate Stirling and Steve Aos

Submissions from 1994

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Blurred Boundaries: Recent Changes in the Relationship Between Economics and the Philosophy of Natural Science, D. Wade Hands

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Restabilizing Dynamics: Construction and Constraint in the History of Walrasian Stability Theory, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 1993

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Ad Hocness In Economics And The Popperian Tradition, Douglas Wade Hands

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Blaug's Economic Methodology, Douglas Wade Hands

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Falsification, Situational Analysis, And Scientific Research Programs: The Popperian Tradition In Economic Methodology, Douglas Wade Hands

More Light On Integrability, Symmetry, And Utility As Potential Energy In Mirowski's Critical History, Douglas Wade Hands

The History And Philosophy Of Social-science - Gordon,s, Douglas Wade Hands

The Methodology Of Empirical Science Economics : A Closer Look, Douglas Wade Hands

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The Popperian Tradition In Economic Methodology: Should It Be Saved?, Douglas Wade Hands

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The Problem Of Excess Content: Economics, Novelty, And A Long Popperian Tale, Douglas Wade Hands

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The Role Of Crucial Counterexamples In The Growth Of Economic Knowledge: Two Case Studies In The Recent History Of Economic Thought, Douglas Wade Hands

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Thirteen Theses On Progress In Economic Methodology, Douglas Wade Hands

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More Light on Integrability, Symmetry and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History, D. Wade Hands

Railroads And Regulation In Washington State, 1901-1915, Elizabeth A. Nunn

Child Support Reform: Are the Children Better Off?, Kate Stirling

Submissions from 1992

Metaphysics, Economics And Progress - Comment, Douglas Wade Hands

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More Light And Less Heat - Mirowski On Economics And The Energy Metaphor, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: Economic Theories, True or False? Essays in the History and Methodology of Economics by Mark Blaug, Douglas Wade Hands

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Some Other Reasons The Dog Didn't Bark : A Slightly More Constrained Alternative To Weintraub's Story About Samuelson, Liapunov Theory, And General Equilibrium Dynamics, Douglas Wade Hands

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Metaphysics, Economics and Progress: A Comment on Glass and Johnson, D. Wade Hands

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More Light and Less Heat: Mirowski on Economics and the Energy Metaphor, D. Wade Hands

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Reply by D. Wade Hands, D. Wade Hands

Review of: Economics and the Philosophy of Science, D. Wade Hands

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Testing, Rationality and Progress: Essays on the Popperian Tradition in Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands

The Road To Financial Security For Divorced Women : Who Succeeds, Who Does Not And Why, Kate J. Stirling

Submissions from 1991

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Popper, The Rationality Principle And Economic Explanation, Douglas Wade Hands

The "base Camp" Nonparadox : Reflections On The Tâtonnement Idealization In Walrasian Economics, Douglas Wade Hands

The Consequences Of Economic Rhetoric, Douglas Wade Hands

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Essentialism and Novelty: Reply to Mäki and Hamminga, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science, D. Wade Hands

Child Support Issues: What the Research Tells Us, Kate Stirling

The Economic Consequences of Child Support in Washington State, Kate Stirling

Review of: Securing The Right To Employment: Social Welfare Policy In The United States by Philip Harvey, Kate J. Stirling

Submissions from 1990

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Grunberg and Modigliani, Public Predictions and the New Classical Macroeconomics, D. Wade Hands

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Second Thoughts on ‘Second Thoughts:’ Reconsidering the Lakatosian Progress of The General Theory, D. Wade Hands

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Thirteen Theses on Progress in Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: The Spread Of Economic Ideas by David Colander and A. W. Coats, Kate J. Stirling

Submissions from 1989

Expanding The Neoclassical Vision - Comment, Ws Brown and Douglas Wade Hands

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Expanding the Neoclassical Vision: Comment, D. Wade Hands and William S. Brown

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Review of: Classical Political Economy: A Survey of Recent Literature edited by William O. Thweatt, Kate J. Stirling

Women Who Remain Divorced: The Long-term Economic Consequences, Kate J. Stirling

Submissions from 1988

Ad Hocness In Economics And The Popperian Tradition, Douglas Wade Hands

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Ad Hocness in Economics and Popperian Philosophy, D. Wade Hands

Further Consideration Of The Economic Consequences Of Marital Dissolution, Kate J. Stirling

Submissions from 1987

Human Agency And Language - Philosophical Papers, Pt 1 - Taylor,c, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers I, and Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers II, D. Wade Hands

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Urban Industrial Tax Subsidies: A Noncooperative Equilibrium Approach, D. Wade Hands and Bruce D. Mann

Submissions from 1986

Economics In Disarray - Wiles,p, Routh,g, Douglas Wade Hands

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Gross substitutes and Immiserizing Growth, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: Economics in Disarray, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 1985

2nd Thoughts On Lakatos, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: Philosophy of Economics, D. Wade Hands

Review of: The Rules of the Game, D. Wade Hands

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Second Thoughts on Lakatos, D. Wade Hands

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The Logical Reconstruction of Pure Exchange Economics: Another Alternative, D. Wade Hands

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The Structuralist View of Economic Theories: A Review Essay: The Case of General Equilibrium in Particular, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 1984

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The Methodology Of Economics - Blaug,m, Douglas Wade Hands

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Blaug’s Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands

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The Role of Crucial Counterexamples in the Growth of Economic Knowledge: Two Case Studies in the Recent History of Economic Thought, D. Wade Hands

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What Economics is Not: An Economist’s Response to Rosenberg, D. Wade Hands

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The Effect of Creative Financing on the Value of Single Family Homes, Bruce Mann and James Hubert

Submissions from 1983

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Stability In A Discrete-time Model Of The Walrasian Tatonnement, Douglas Wade Hands

Testing Perfect Competition - A Comment, Douglas Wade Hands

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Stability in a Discrete Time Model of the Walrasian Tatonnement, D. Wade Hands

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‘Testing’ Perfect Competition: A Comment, D. Wade Hands

The Influence of School Busing on House Values, Bruce Mann

Studies In Labor-markets - Rosen,s, Bruce D. Mann

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Moderate Rent Controls: A Microeconomic And Public Choice Analysis, Bruce D. Mann and Michael A. Veseth

Submissions from 1982

A Comment on ‘A Generalization of the Gross Substitute System’, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 1981

Microeconomics - Gravelle,h, Rees,r, Douglas Wade Hands