The Helsinki approach to economic methodology, or, how to espouse the mainstream?

ABSTRACT This paper provides metaphilosophical reflections on economic methodology by way of discussing the ‘Helsinki approach’. This approach combines the study of the practice of economics with an endeavor to retain a normative perspective. It also explains that it is difficult to find explicit espousals of mainstream economics in the methodological literature not because nobody takes a mainstream view, but rather because expressing such a view is inconsistent with the prevalent metaphilosophical approach.

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  2021

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  Journal of Economic Methodology

• Publication date

  2021-01-02

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  DOI 10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868775
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