Talk:Economic methodology

message: A recent article Edit maintains the essential structure of the article present from the beginning (thank you, JQ) in the course of supplementing it.   Here are the main features of the Edit: 
# In-line citations were increased in number & moved to footnotes.
# The 2nd & 3rd paragraphs were consolidated into one paragraph, a list of issues in economic methodology. 
# That list was expanded.  
# Most of the footnotes have links for follow-up of the issue associated with it.
# Some of the issues have more than one linked footnote, allowing the reader to follow up (or not), depending in interest.    
# Most of the items in the References section were moved to footnotes at the points where they seemed most relevant (a close call in some cases, given overlap of issues, for example placing Samuelson's Foundations earlier with "fundamental principles" rather than later with "formalization"). 
# The next-to-last paragraph was added on the relation of the subject to philosophy of economics.
# The Mill and Keynes books  at the "External links" section were moved to footnotes 3 & 5.
The text of the article remains short and to the point. Still, the article could be readily expanded, for example by forming sections on one or more of the issues listed there (or others to be added).  --Thomasmeeks (talk) 16:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
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message: I have just started a page on applied economics that talks about some issues related to methodology. I realise its content and style might be a bit problematic and it is over-reliant on Backhouse and Biddle but I think we needed a page on applied economics. (Msrasnw (talk) 20:24, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Applied economics

message: Unfortunately many Bots have 2 columns as the default.  
Advantages of 1 column are that it: 
# allows the reader to see appreciably more successive footnotes per screen (a bigger "map" of upcoming footnotes) 
# is less "busy" visually as to irrelevant footnotes in the other column
# is much more common in print, and so requires less getting used to.
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How to change the footnotes (back) to 1 column? Just change whatever the Reflist was  (such as   or  ) at the beginning of  the footnotes section  to   or  . A note like this on the Talk page or to the Bot editor might reduce use of 2 col. from Bots. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 22:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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message: Too many sources, too less text. The same issue as with some other economic articles here. What is the point of adding 20 sources of single sentence? Or maybe a template should be done for this situation for sources cleanup. --Aleksd (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: Ways of improving Economic methodology might include expanding the topics in the text that are footnoted using the footnoted  or related sources to develop into a paragraph or 2 each.  General references might also be used as a basis of organizing paragraphs or sections, such as, from the footnote 1 references:
* Roger E. Backhouse, 2008. "methodology of economics", The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
* Lawrence A. Boland, 1987. "methodology", The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 455-56.
* Daniel M. Hausman, 1989. "Economic Methodology in a Nutshell", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3(2), pp. 115-127.
* Kevin D. Hoover, 1995. "Review Article: Why Does Methodology Matter for Economics?" Economic Journal, 105(430), pp. 715-734 and 
* Mark Blaug, 1992. The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists Explain, 2nd ed., Cambridge. Description and Preview.
In the meanwhile, the footnoted sources might be consulted, starting with the links.  No one "owns" this article of course.  And anyone who studies good sources may be in a good position to improve this article.  Best wishes. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 20:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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