id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bq66hycwizfpxbk53xl2vmtcmm Neil de Marchi Mill's Unrevised Philosophy of Economics: A Comment on Hausman 1986 13 .pdf application/pdf 5704 408 61 Daniel Hausman in his recent article in this journal on Mill's philosophy of economics has argued that whereas Mill in his early essay on away from a switch in the way Mill viewed economic laws between "On Verification, that is to say, belongs to the application not to the science of economics. empirical laws can be found-not the case in economics-still "the experimental process is not here to be regarded as a distinct road to the truth has continued to influence economic methodologists and economists because he was an early user of what we now know as the deductive-nomological model of explanation,5 replete with the requirements that the general ("covering") laws be testable and true (Mill, 8: pp. General-equilibrium analysis has something of the character of Mill's science of economics in the sense of being counterfactual in Book 6 of the Logic, restates his views on the nature of economics ./cache/work_bq66hycwizfpxbk53xl2vmtcmm.pdf ./txt/work_bq66hycwizfpxbk53xl2vmtcmm.txt