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- adjective philosophy Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn, most often to the theories he put forth in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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In a sense it was a second "Kuhnian" revolution completing Menger's original marginalist revolution but extended into the fields of comparative economics, monetary theory, and distribution theory.
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In the community of Austrian economists this account of Kuhn's model of scientific belief was first introduced I believe by Murray Rothbard in a 1971 essay that is both contra-Whig and 'Kuhnian'.
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A Kuhnian revolution developed in the teeth of the Marshall/Keynes counter-revolution against Menger's original marginalist/subjectivist revolution.
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Mmm, it looks like the 70s was an era when a Kuhnian paradigm shift was occuring.
Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009
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Secondly, has there been any real revolutions in economics in the Kuhnian sense?
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Lewis S. Feuer, Einstein and the Generations of Science — Kuhnian history of the social roots of the physical theories of relativity and quantum theory.
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Secondly, has there been any real revolutions in economics in the Kuhnian sense?
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Right now there's something like a Kuhnian revolution going on in developmental biology, based on the idea that form is molded by genetic elements that regulate gene expression, with the consequence that differences in form are determined by changes in expression, rather than by changes in the genes themselves.
Attached to Strings 2009
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The libertarian view is like a Kuhnian paradigm (Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) in that it has its own language; to work within the paradigm one has to learn the definitions and the ways of seeing things.
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It is clear, however, that, because economists never have to admit error in their pet theories, economics is not subject to a Kuhnian revolution.
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