This is a bit wonkish if you haven't been following this exchange, but it makes some good points relevant to philosophy of science and philosophy of economics. It is about Milton Friedman's famous article on "as if" methodology, that is, instrumentalism rather than realism relative to economics and physics. Blackford is a heterodox economist, and Jason Smith is a physicist.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Jason Smith — Economics, physics, and data: a response to Blackford
This is a bit wonkish if you haven't been following this exchange, but it makes some good points relevant to philosophy of science and philosophy of economics. It is about Milton Friedman's famous article on "as if" methodology, that is, instrumentalism rather than realism relative to economics and physics. Blackford is a heterodox economist, and Jason Smith is a physicist.
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