Summary

How do economists know what they know? In a call for a new empiricism Barbara Bergmann asserts that economists mainly make it up.

Recommended Citation

Bergmann, Barbara R. (2007) "Needed: A New Empiricism," The Economists' Voice: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2, Article 2.
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1228
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol4/iss2/art2

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