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[log in to unmask] (John Medaille)
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Thu Oct 12 17:04:50 2006
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Samuel Bostaph wrote:  
>Different "schools" of economic theorizing are primarily distinguished  
>from one another by their methodologies.  Not surprisingly, this is a  
>result of the fact that a methodology is founded on an epistemology--a  
>theory of knowing.  Different epistemologies produce different  
>methodologies, which in turn produce different general theories as  
>explanations of the phenomena its theorists term "economic."  An  
>Aristotelian would say that only one epistemology can be correct.  
  
  
How would you characterize the epistemological   
differences between  Keynesian, an Austrian, and a neoclassical economics?  
  
  
John C. Medaille  

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