Lawrence A. Boland

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Lawrence A. Boland

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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Arthur Boland is a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. Boland is critical of the neoclassical research program. He has attempted to draw out the unstated assumptions of neoclassical economics and submit them to methodological scrutiny. His key criticisms of traditional economics center on the problem of induction, methodological individualism, and the acquisition of knowledge.

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Lawrence A. Boland's Published Works

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A Critique of Friedman's Critics (1979) (254)
On the Futility of Criticizing the Neoclassical Maximization Hypothesis (1981) (221)
The Foundations of Economic Method (2020) (200)
Neoclassical political economy: the analysis of rent-seeking and DUP activities (1987) (63)
On the Methodology of Economic Model Building (1966) (51)
On the Efficient Use of Mathematics in Economics: Some Theory, Facts and Results of an Opinion Survey (1986) (49)
Knowledge and the Role of Institutions in Economic Theory (1979) (47)
Criticizing positive accounting theory (1992) (46)
The Principles of Economics: Some Lies My Teachers Told Me (1993) (46)
Methodology: Reply [An Essay on the Foundations of Friedman's Methodology] (1983) (42)
Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective (2003) (36)
Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey (1997) (31)
Time in Economics vs. Economics in Time: The 'Hayek Problem.' (1978) (28)
Scientific Thinking without Scientific Method: Two views of Popper (1994) (26)
The Principles of Economics: Some Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) (23)
Testability in Economic Science (1977) (21)
Methodology as an Exercise in Economic Analysis (1971) (21)
GIFFEN GOODS, MARKET PRICES AND TESTABILITY (1977) (21)
Methodology for a New Microeconomics (1986) (16)
Anatomy of a journal: A reflection on the evolution of Contemporary Accounting Research, 1984–2010 (2015) (13)
Methodology for a New Microeconomics: The Critical Foundations. (1986) (13)
Conventionalism and Economic Theory (1970) (12)
The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy , Uskali Mäki, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii + 363 pages. (2010) (12)
Towards a useful methodology discipline (2001) (12)
THE IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM AND THE VALIDITY OF ECONOMIC MODELS (1968) (10)
Situational Analysis beyond Neoclassical Economists (1998) (10)
The Neoclassical Maximization Hypothesis: Reply (1983) (10)
Reflections on Blaug's Methodology of Economics: Suggestions for a Revised Edition (1985) (9)
ON THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ECONOMIC THEORY (1979) (9)
Uninformative economic models (1975) (8)
Cartwright on “Economics” (2010) (8)
Satisficing in Methodology: A Reply (1981) (7)
Friedman's Methodology vs. Conventional Empiricism: A Reply to Rotwein (1980) (7)
The accounting‐economics interface: where the market fails (1998) (7)
Boland on Friedmanâ€™s Methodology: A Summation (1987) (7)
Lexicographic Orderings, Multiple Criteria, and "Ad Hocery." (1974) (6)
Difficulties with the Element of Time and the 'Principles' of Economics or Some Lies My Teachers Told Me (1982) (6)
Individualist Economics Without Psychology (1988) (6)
Knowledge in economics: Game‐Theoretic Versus Market‐Process: A Review Article (1998) (6)
REASON AND REALITY IN THE METHODOLOGIES OF ECONOMICS – AN INTRODUCTION (2007) (6)
Economics «in Time» vs Time in Economics: Building Models so That Time Matters (2005) (6)
ECONOMIC UNDERSTANDING AND UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS (1969) (6)
Methodological criticism vs. ideology and hypocrisy (2003) (6)
Testability, time and equilibrium stability (1977) (6)
Methodology for a New Microeconomics : The Critical Foundations (2014) (6)
AXIOMATIC ANALYSIS AND ECONOMIC UNDERSTANDING (1970) (6)
THE LAW OF DEMAND, WEAK AXIOM OF REVEALED PREFERENCE AND PRICE‐CONSUMPTION CURVES (1975) (5)
Understanding the Popperian Legacy in Economics (1990) (5)
Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations (2014) (5)
The principles of economics (1992) (5)
Model Specifications and Stochasticism in Economic Methodology (1977) (4)
Dealing with Popper in Economic Methodology (2003) (4)
V—An Institutional Theory of Economic Technology and Change (1971) (4)
Philosophy of economics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 13) edited by Uskali Mäki. North Holland: Elsevier, 2012, 902 pp. (2013) (4)
Equilibrium Models in Economics (2017) (4)
Reading and Misreading Friedman’s 1953 Methodology Essay (2016) (3)
THE FOUNDATIONS OF KEYNES ’ METHODOLOGY : THE GENERAL THEORY (2002) (3)
THE FOUNDATIONS OF KEYNES ’ METHODOLOGY : THE GENERAL THEORY (2002) (3)
On Reviewing Machine Dreams (2006) (2)
On the Relevance of Neo-Walrasian Economic Theory: A Review (1987) (2)
Model Building in Economics (2014) (2)
Critical Realism vs. Economic Rhetoric (1999) (2)
Book Review:The Entropy Law and the Economic Process Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1972) (2)
Methodology and the Individual Decision Maker (1986) (2)
Economics as a Social Science: An Approach to Nonautistic Theory (2003) (2)
Book Review:Epistemics & Economics: A Critique of Economic Doctrines G. L. S. Shackle (1974) (2)
5. On methodology of the ‘economics of …’ literature (2000) (1)
Individualism and Social Knowledge (2020) (1)
On Economic Methodology Literature from 1963 to Today (2018) (1)
The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals) : Methodology after Samuelson (2014) (1)
Review: Why Does Methodology Matter for Economics? Reviewed Work(s): The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists explain. by Mark Blaug's The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics.by Daniel Hausman's Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns. by Alexander (2007) (1)
The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (2013) (1)
Methodology for a New Microeconomics (Routledge Revivals) : The Critical Foundations (2014) (1)
Rationality and Explanation in Economics. By Maurice Lagueux. Routledge, London. 2010. xx + 275 pp. Hbk £95.00. (2014) (0)
Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science, Daniel P. Steel. Oxford University Press, 2007. xi + 241 pages (2010) (0)
On building theoretical models using game theory (2014) (0)
Ideal-type Methodology and Instrumentalism (2020) (0)
Prologue: Model building yesterday versus today (2014) (0)
Knowledge in Economic Models (1999) (0)
Optimistic vs. Defeatist Conventionalism (2020) (0)
On the limitations of equilibrium models in general (2014) (0)
Model building in economics post-1980 vs. pre-1980 (2013) (0)
Editing Economics (Book) (2002) (0)
ON THE BEST STRATEGY FOR DOING PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS* (1983) (0)
On the role and limitations of experimental and behavioural economics (2014) (0)
On the purpose and limitations of game-theoretic models (2014) (0)
Epilogue : Problem-oriented methodology: Towards a Popperian ‘small-m’ methodology of economics (2020) (0)
On building macro-econometric models (2014) (0)
6 Equilibria and Teleological Statics (1998) (0)
ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPARATIVE STATICS (1998) (0)
Time and Evolution in Economic Theory (2020) (0)
Psychologistic Individualism and the Methodology of New Institutional Economics (2020) (0)
Prologue : Understanding the methodology of economics (2020) (0)
Style vs. Substance in Economic Methodology (1995) (0)
Equilibrium-based Explanation vs. Individualism (2020) (0)
Model Building in Economics: Choosing model-building methods (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Philosophy in Economics. Edited by JOSEPH C. PITT. Dordrecht, Boston and London: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981, Pp. 203 + index. $14.95 (paper (1985) (0)
Neoclassical vs. Classical Economic Models (1984) (0)
Instrumentalism vs. Conventionalism: Against Rule-based Methodology (2020) (0)
Understanding Popper’s Theory of Science (2020) (0)
From Macroeconomics to Evolutionary Game Theory (2020) (0)
Rationality vs. Maximization (2020) (0)
Epilogue: Against putting ideology ahead of realism (2014) (0)
Econometrics and equilibrium models (2016) (0)
Contemporary Methodology Vs Popper's Philosophy of Science (1998) (0)
The Explanatory Problem of Individualism (2020) (0)
Model Building in Economics: Modeling and forecasting (2014) (0)
Model Building in Economics: The logical adequacy of convincing tests of models using empirical data (2014) (0)
Knowledge and Learning in Economic Models (2020) (0)
Imperfect Knowledge vs. Imperfect Behavior (2020) (0)
Falsifiability without Popper on the Agenda (2020) (0)
Knowledge in Economic Models : Individualism and Social Knowledge (1996) (0)
Maximization and Game Theory (2020) (0)
Revised final draft A Critique of Friedman ’ s Critics (0)
Model Building in Economics: Microeconomic versus macroeconomic theoretical model building (2014) (0)
Epilogue (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : An Economic Querist. By G. L. S. SHACKLE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. 135 (1976) (0)
The Collected Works of Cliff Lloyd (1983) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
The State of Equilibrium as an Optimum (1998) (0)
Prologue (2020) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
Situational Analysis and Neoclassical Explanation (2020) (0)
Individuals and Identity in Economics (2012) (0)
On Being a Popperian Economist (2017) (0)
Notes on contributors (2003) (0)
Obstacles to Building Realistic Models (2020) (0)
Milton Friedman: Economics in Theory and Practice , by Abraham Hirsch and Neil de Marchi. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1990. Pp. vii, 321, index. $34.50. ISBN 0-472-10175-7. (1991) (0)
The Problem of Induction vs. the Problem with Induction (2020) (0)
Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose, London: Allen & Unwin, 1987, Pp. xvii, 265 (1989) (0)
Model building from a philosophy of science perspective (2014) (0)
Book Review: The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology? by Roger E. Backhouse (2015) (0)
Book Reviews : Philosophy of Economics: A Critique of Demarcation. By Raphael Sassower. Lanham: University Press of America, 1985. Pp. xx + 217. $11.75 (paper (1989) (0)

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