Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/s1529-213420220000026006
C. Harris, A. Myers, Christienne Briol, Sam Carlen
A discipline is bound by some combination of a shared subject matter, shared theory, and shared technique. Yet modern economics is seemingly without limit to its domain. As a discipline without a shared subject matter, what is the binding force of economics today? We combine topic modeling and text analysis to analyze different approaches to inquiry within the discipline of economics. We find that the importance of theory has declined as economics has increasingly become defined by its empirical techniques. We question whether this trajectory is stable in the long run as the binding force of the discipline.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/s1529-213420220000026005
Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
{"title":"Laboratory Experiments and Austrian Economics","authors":"Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap","doi":"10.1108/s1529-213420220000026005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s1529-213420220000026005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":124655,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131498510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/s1529-213420220000026001
D. Hausman
{"title":"Austrian Economics and the New Paternalism","authors":"D. Hausman","doi":"10.1108/s1529-213420220000026001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s1529-213420220000026001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":124655,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127660213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/s1529-213420220000026003
Erik O. Kimbrough
{"title":"Rules, Perception and the Intelligibility of Laboratory Experiments on Social Interaction in Economics","authors":"Erik O. Kimbrough","doi":"10.1108/s1529-213420220000026003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s1529-213420220000026003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":124655,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130968543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/s1529-213420220000026002
J. Aimone
{"title":"Austrian Critiques of Behavioral Economics: Common Misconceptions and Low-Hanging Fruit","authors":"J. Aimone","doi":"10.1108/s1529-213420220000026002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s1529-213420220000026002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":124655,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127416374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}