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David Brat - Philosophy of Economics - History of Science Method and Ethics

Book Abstract
The goal of this reader is to help you to understand the relation between the realm of philosophical ethics and the academic field of economics, within the context of the liberal arts education. Notice that the goal is not to teach any certain system of ethics. Nor is this a book on business ethics. Rather the goal is to explain whether ethics is possible at all within the field of economics as it has emerged over the past century.
The introduction at the beginning of the book as well as the introductions to the three sections of this book will also attempt to tie the material together as you progress through this line of economic thought. We will find that among these eminent economists, there are many definitions of what economics is and also of what economics should be. From these famous definitions of economics, these chapters will begin to make the logical connections between economics and the possibility of ethics.
Introduction
I. Early Definitions and Methods for Political Economy
Two Treatises on Civil Government: The Rational and the Industrious
John Locke - 1722
The Wealth of Nations: Self-Interest and the Common Good
Adam Smith - 1776
On the definition and method of political economy.
John Stuart Mill - 1836
Principles of Economics: Book I The Social Context of Economics
Alfred Marshall - 1890
Objectivity and understanding in economics.
Max Weber - 1904
The nature and significance of economic science.
Lionel Robbins - 1935
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II. Logical Positivism as the Method for Economic Science
A Logical Positivist - On Verification in Economics
Terence Hutchison - 1956
A Logical Empiricist with an Instrumentalist Twist - The Methodology of Positive Economics
Milton Friedman 1953
Response:
A Necessary Evil in Economic Science - Testability and Approximation
Herbert Simon - 1963 A Critical Response to Friedman
III. Values, Conversations, Rhetoric and Ethics
What is an Economic Fact? - Implicit Values in Economics
Gunnar Myrdal - 1954
An Assessment of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes & Karl Marx: Science and Ideology.
Joseph Schumpeter - 1949
The Rhetoric of Economics
Donald McCloskey - 1983
Conversations with Economists - (Lucas 95, Tobin 81, Modigliani 85 & Solow 87)
Arjo Klamer - 1984
Rhetoric and Ideology
Robert Heilbroner - 1988
Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies.
Michael Szenberg - 1992
1) Kenneth Arrow -  I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw
2) James M. Buchanan - From the Inside Looking Out
3) Paul A. Samuelson - My Life Philosophy: Policy Credos and Working Ways