Naive empiricism, on the other hand, promised to restore economics as 'science' by allowing it to be an 'uncompromising pursuit of truth'.
Empiricism treats the fact as identical with the real signified by it.
So it is that histories have appeared of empiricism versus rationalism, radicalism versus conservatism, science versus magic, and words versus things.
The core lesson of the last fifty years has been that both empiricism and nativism are wrong.
In the early part of the century, empiricism provided the dominant theoretical orientation to knowledge.
A combination of a new idea and empiricism allows challenges to established thinking.
The next step would seem obvious: test it systematically rather than rely on liberal thinking and empiricism.
Skepticism about the quality of economic empiricism became a hallmark of those who took up the program of mathematical formalization.
