Contents. PART I: WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK. 1. From the received view to the views of Popper. 2. From Popper to the new heterodoxy. PART II: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY. 3. The verivicationists, a largely nineteenth-century story. The falsificationists, a wholly twentieth-century story. 5. The distinction between positive and normative economcis. PART III: A METHODOLOGICAL APPRAISAL OF THE NEOCLASSICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM. 6. The theory of consumer behavior. 7. The theory of the firm. 8. General equilibrium theory. 9. Marginal productivity theory. 10. Switching, reswitching and all that. 11. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory of international trade. 12. Keynesians versus monetarists. 13. Human capital theory. 14. The new economics of the family. PART V. WHAT HAVE WE NOW LEARNED ABOUT ECONCOMICS? 15. Conclusions.