[POPPER (Karl R.)] & MARCHI (Neil de). (Edited by).

The Popperian legacy in economics. Papers presented at a symposium in Amsterdam, December 1985.

First edition. 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (some underlinings and marginal annotations in blue ink, mostly concentrated to chapters 1 and 9-10; minor creasing to extremities of jacket, otherwise a very good copy). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

£50.00

With a lengthy presentation inscription from the editor Neil De Marchi to the American literary critic Barbara Herrnstein Smith in black ink to front free endpaper, and with a later ‘sticky note’ adhered to front pastedown inscribed ‘MIKE, From BHS to me to you. Back to BHS when done. - DAVID’ in blue ink.

A series of papers on the influence amongst economists of Popper’s theories of empirical falsifiability as the distinguishing characteristic of science, with an introduction by Neil de Marchi and contributions by Terence Wilmot Hutchison and Mark Blaug, amongst others.

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