"Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.""
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January 1, 1970

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Imre Lakatos (1978, p. 6), cited in: Vernon L. Smith, "Theory, experiment and economics]." The Journal of Economic Perspectives (1989):p. 168