Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in interest in economic methodology. However this work has moved in a number of significantly different directions, and it is not easy to see how several of these might be reconciled. The virtual consensus on some variant of the falsificationism associated with Kuhn, Lakatos and Popper that had emerged by the late 1970s has gone, and has been replaced by a range of more or less exclusive approaches. In New Directions in Economic Methodology, some of the figures most closely associated with the most important of these new approaches provide new and...

Interpreting Macroeconomics explores a variety of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. The book considers a number of historiographical and methodological positions, as well as analyzing various important episodes in the development of macroeconomics, before during and after the Keynesian revolution. Roger Backhouse shows that the full richness of these developments can only by brought out by approaches which blend both relativism and absolutism, and historical and rational reconstructions. Examples discussed include Hobson, Keynes and Friedman.

This volume contains the proceedings of MPC 2000, the ?fth international c- ference on Mathematics of Program Construction. This series of conferences aims to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably useful and usable in the process of constructing c- puter programs (whether implemented in hardware or software). The focus is on techniques that combine precision with concision, enabling programs to be constructed by formal calculation. Within this theme, the scope of the series is very diverse, including programming methodology, program...