Essays in Positive Economics (1953)

Essays in Positive Economics (1953)

Milton Friedman

Year: 1953
Authors: Milton Friedman
Publishers: University of Chicago Press
Pages: 336
Print type: BOOK

Description:

This paper is concerned primarily with certain methodological problems that arise in constructing the "distinct positive science" that John Neville Keynes called for, in particular, the problem how to decide whether a suggested hypothesis or theory should be tentatively accepted as part of the "body of systematized knowledge concerning what is."