Lawrence A. Boland

Lawrence Arthur Boland (born 1939 in Peoria, Illinois) is a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University.

Lawrence Arthur Boland
Born1939
NationalityUnited States, Canada
FieldMethodology
School or
tradition		Economic Methodology
Alma mater[]
InfluencesKarl Popper
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Boland is critical of the neoclassical research program. He has attempted to draw out the unstated assumptions of neoclassical economics and submit them to methodological scrutiny. His key criticisms of traditional economics center on the problem of induction, methodological individualism, and the acquisition of knowledge.

Published work
  • The Foundations of Economic Method (1982), London: Geo. Allen & Unwin [1]
  • Methodology for a New Microeconomics: The Critical Foundations (1986/87), Boston: Allen & Unwin [2]
  • The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson (1989/91), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-00014-9.[3]
  • The Principles of Economics: Some Lies my Teachers Told Me (1992), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13208-8.[4]
  • Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey (1997), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13607-5.[5]
  • The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective (2003), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26774-9.[6]
  • Model building in economics : its purposes and limitations (2014), New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107032941 [7]
gollark: Technically speaking, white noise is the highest complexity music.
gollark: The position should be open to anyone who can demonstrate skills in epidemiology, such as by starting then containing a disease.
gollark: You don't have to have *credentialist* elitist rule.
gollark: They're not necessary. They could just assign non-essay work.
gollark: Essays < most things.

References
  1. The Foundations of Economic Method. Allen & Unwin. 1982.
  2. Methodology for a New Microeconomics: The Critical Foundations. Allen & Unwin. 1986–87.
  3. The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson. Routledge. 1989–91.
  4. The Principles of Economics: Some Lies my Teachers Told Me. Routledge. 1992.
  5. Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey. Routledge. 1997.
  6. The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective. Routledge. 2003.
  7. Model building in economics : its purposes and limitations. Cambridge U.P. 2014.
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