"Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes."
— Imre Lakatos

January 1, 1970

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Imre Lakatos (1978, p. 6), cited in: Vernon L. Smith (1989), "Theory, experiment and economics." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 3 (1): 168.