Lawrence A. Boland

Lawrence Arthur Boland
Born	1939
Nationality	American, Canadian
Academic career
Field	Methodology
School or tradition	Economic Methodology
Influences	Karl Popper
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Lawrence Arthur Boland (born 1939 in Peoria, Illinois) is a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University.

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
• Methodology for a New Microeconomics: The Critical Foundations (1986/87), Boston: Allen & Unwin
• The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson (1989/91), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-00014-9.
• The Principles of Economics: Some Lies my Teachers Told Me (1992), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13208-8.
• Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey (1997), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13607-5.
• The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective (2003), London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26774-9.
• Model building in economics : its purposes and limitations (2014), New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107032941

External links

• Homepage
• Review of The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective (2nd Edition)