Mainstream economic methodology
综述主流经济学方法论，指出方法论中从规范主义转向描述主义的趋势，以及经济学中从公理化转向碎片化的偏好，并认为非主流方法论可能提供解决当前紧张关系的非二元方案。
This is a survey of mainstream economic methodology, both in the sense of mainstream methodology and of mainstream economics. Tensions are identified in methodology resulting from an increasing preference for descriptivism over prescriptivism, and in economics resulting from an increasing preference for fragmentation over axiomatisation. The increasing attention of methodologists to the actual practice of economists, and of economists to possibilities outside the traditional axiomatic strictures, are both welcome. But, still being based in a dualistic mode of thought, these developments threaten to go too far, denying methodology any constructive role and removing any focus on the foundations for theorising. Non-mainstream methodology is shown to offer a non-dualistic solution which could resolve current tensions.