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Peer reviewedMcCloskey, Donald N. – American Sociologist, 1990
Criticizes methodological tendencies of economics and sociological researchers who do not ask "how large is large?" Reliance on statistical significance and existence theorems shows the limits of formalistic rather than humanistic research approaches. Argues that serious scholars develop whole arguments and understand the rhetoric of…
Descriptors: Criticism, Economic Research, Economics, Higher Education
