Applying Kuhn's and Lakatos' frameworks to economics helped clarify distinctive features of economics and may have contributed to changes in the discipline.

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1.Philosophers became more aware of large theoretical structures that unify and guide research following Kuhn (1970) and Lakatos (1970).
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2.Many economists applied Kuhn's or Lakatos' work to shed light on the overall structure of economics.
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3.The comparison of economics to Kuhn's and Lakatos' schema served to highlight distinctive features of economics.
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In the wake of the work of Kuhn (1970) and Lakatos (1970), philosophers are much more aware of and interested in the larger theoretical structures that unify and guide research within particular research traditions. Since many theoretical projects or approaches in economics are systematically unified, they pose questions about what guides research, and many economists have applied the work of Kuhn or Lakatos in the attempt to shed light on the overall structure of economics (Baumberg 1977, Bla

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