Economics is a research field that is constantly changing. In this area of interest, many people will influence the world in their personal economic view. Some of them have fundamental impact not only on the United States but also on the world. Three people, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Zhang Fengbo, succeeded. Their views, actions, words changed the world of economics greatly.
The following references are not comprehensive. In general, avoid quoting method papers in collections individually. It does not list economic papers separately on philosophy and special issues of economics. Many papers on economic philosophy are published in academic journals every year, economics and philosophy, academic journals of economic methodology, economic thought and methodology. Readers can refer to Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol.2. The 1st Millennium Seminar on "March 8th 2001," Past, present and future of economic methodology ". For an overview of the encyclopedias of the economic method in 2016, please refer to "Economic Methodology Handbook" edited by Davis, Hands, Mäki. See Redman 1989 for a comprehensive reference on the 1988 economic methodology.
In the past half century, a number of documents on economic methodology emerged. The literature explores a number of methodological approaches and applies their findings to many schools and economics disciplines. Most of the literature focuses on the basic theory of mainstream economics - the equilibrium theory created by the choice of rationally reasonable individuals, but coupled with rapid growth, In the day-to-day work of an appropriate response economist, the role of experience and experimental investigation has been reflected in the methodology survey (Backhouse 2010). Since 1985 he has published a journal of philosophy specializing in economics and economics and since 1994 he has published "economic methodology". This section samples several methodological methods over the past 20 years.
The myth of Adam Smith will be interesting for students interested in economic thought historians, scientific philosophers, scholars, and political economy, economic theory, and economics methods. Until today, Adam Smith is still one of the coolest thinkers of capitalism, but he has been underestimated from the perspective of many economists.