The shiny new empiricism eventually triumphed over the evil old rationalism and everyone lived happily ever after.
The next step would seem obvious: test it systematically rather than rely on liberal thinking and empiricism.
So it is that histories have appeared of empiricism versus rationalism, radicalism versus conservatism, science versus magic, and words versus things.
This alternative partly situates itself between idealism and empiricism, between subjectivism and objectivism.
The epistemological beliefs characterising new course economics were the ideals of a naive empiricism rather than those of modern critical positivism.
The core lesson of the last fifty years has been that both empiricism and nativism are wrong.
As just indicated, the paper can be read altogether as an argumentative strategy to make empiricism indispensable.
Naive empiricism, on the other hand, promised to restore economics as 'science' by allowing it to be an 'uncompromising pursuit of truth'.
