‘Let your science be human’: Hume's economic methodology
考察休谟的经济学方法论，认为其将人类行为理解为互动主义，并运用“无偏旁观者”概念来定位社会科学家的角色，主张从社会理论而非历史著作中理解其方法论。
This essay examines David Hume's economic methodology. The author characterises Hume's understanding of human actions as interactionism. Its key point is that interactions generate the disinterested view of 'the spectator' in the human mind. Hume applies this idea of the disinterested spectator to the position of social scientists in understanding social phenomena. Thus Hume's approach to social science can be regarded as interpretive. The author also points out the difference between Hume's method in social science and historical study. Considering this difference, the author argues that we should refer to Hume's social theory rather than historical works in order to understand his economic methodology. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.