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Reviews To draw up the reading list for a philosophy of economics course has always been tricky. In my early days as a lecturer I remember browsing the internet, hoping that the syllabi of my colleagues would solve my problem. Unfortunately each of them had a different conception of what the philosophy of economics was, which topics were worth teaching, and what students should read for the exam. A course entirely devoted to the normative aspects of economics, to be sure, could rely on Dan Hausman and Michael McPherson's Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy (now in its second edition), which is still a masterful survey and introduction to this part of the subject. But nothing similar was available for the philosophy of science of economics. For many years I worked with journal articles, plus the exhortation to read parts of Mark Blaug's The Methodology of Economics and Hausman's The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics.Fifteen years later the situation has improved significantly. To begin with, the field has reached a higher degree of cohesion around a set of core topics. And second, this cohesion is beginning to be reflected in textbooks like Julian Reiss’ Philosophy of Economics. The book is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Economics & Philosophy Cambridge University Press

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Guala, Francesco
Economics & Philosophy , Volume 30 (2): 5 – Jun 2, 2014
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To draw up the reading list for a philosophy of economics course has always been tricky. In my early days as a lecturer I remember browsing the internet, hoping that the syllabi of my colleagues would solve my problem. Unfortunately each of them had a different conception of what the philosophy of economics was, which topics were worth teaching, and what students should read for the exam. A course entirely devoted to the normative aspects of economics, to be sure, could rely on Dan Hausman and Michael McPherson's Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy (now in its second edition), which is still a masterful survey and introduction to this part of the subject. But nothing similar was available for the philosophy of science of economics. For many years I worked with journal articles, plus the exhortation to read parts of Mark Blaug's The Methodology of Economics and Hausman's The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics.Fifteen years later the situation has improved significantly. To begin with, the field has reached a higher degree of cohesion around a set of core topics. And second, this cohesion is beginning to be reflected in textbooks like Julian Reiss’ Philosophy of Economics. The book is

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