PART ONE: Classic Discussions: 1. On the Definition and Method of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill - 2. Objectivity and Understanding in Economics / Max Weber - 3. The Nature and Significance of Economic Science / Lionel Robbins - 4. Economics and Human Action / Frank Knight - 5. Selected Texts on Economics, History, and Social Science / Karl Marx - 6. The Limitations of Marginal Utility / Thorstein Veblen - PART TWO: Positivist and Popperian Views: 7. The Methodology of Positive Economics / Milton Friedman - 8. Testability and Approximation / Herbert Simon - 9. Why Look Under the Hood? / Daniel M. Hausman - 10. Popper and Lakatos in Economic Methodology / D. Wade Hands - PART THREE: Ideology and Normative Economics: 11. Science and Ideology / Joseph Schumpeter - 12. Welfare Propositions of Economics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility - / Nicholas Kaldor - 13. The Philosophical Foundations of Mainstream Normative Economics / Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson - 14. Why Is Cost-Benefit Analysis So Controversial? / Robert H. Frank - 15. Capability and Well-Being / Amartya Sen - PART FOUR: Branches and Schools of Economics and Their Methodological Problems: 16. Econometrics as Observation: The Lucas Critique and the Nature of Econometric Inference / Kevin D. Hoover - 17. Does Macroeconomics Need Microfoundations? / Kevin D. Hoover - 18. Economics in the Laboratory / Vernon Smith - 19. Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions / Colin F. Camerer - 20. The Market as a Creative Process / James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg - 21. What Is the Essence of Institutional Economics? / Geoffrey M. Hodgson - PART FIVE: New Directions in Economic Methodology: 22. The Rhetoric of This Economics / Deirdre N. McCloskey - 23. Realism / Uskali Mäki - 24. What Has Realism Got to Do with It? / Tony Lawson - 25. Feminism and Economics / Julie A. Nelson - 26. Credible Worlds: The Status of Theoretical Models in Economics / Robert Sugden.