The Tyranny of A Priorism in Economic Thought

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A Priorism has been the central methodological organising principle in economics for over one hundred and fifty years. This has been the case in spite of persistent dissent, and in spite of persistent disclaimers, not least with the development of economic statistics and econometrics and of the era of positivist methodological prescriptions. A Priorism is manifest in two dimensions: as a self-conscious analytical principle, and as a de facto social practice. Of particular importance are key historic nodes of intellectual crisis and reconstruction, and the evolving means by which a priorism has been reinforced. A priorism as a centripetal tendency in economics has led to a legacy of conceptual incoherence and a subject matter on the verge of appropriation by superior analyses within competing social disciplines.

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