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    Challenges→Philosophical standards of empirical success are not meaningful criteria for evaluating economics.

    Philosophers of science like Lakatos have developed criteria for progressive versus degenerative research programs that have been substantively applied to economic theory by economists themselves.

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    Degenerative research program(as the opposite of a progressive research program)
    A research program that is stalling or failing—it keeps trying to patch up old problems instead of discovering new insights and solving new questions.
    Lakatos
    Imre Lakatos was a 20th-century Hungarian philosopher of science who developed an influential theory about how science actually progresses. Rather than seeing scientific progress as a simple accumulation of facts or sudden breakthroughs, Lakatos argued that science advances through competing research programs that protect their core ideas while adjusting their supporting beliefs based on new evidence. His work remains important because it offers a more realistic picture of how science develops than earlier theories, explaining why scientists don't immediately abandon ideas when faced with contradictory evidence.
    Philosophy of science(as used in the statement)
    The branch of philosophy that examines how science works, what counts as scientific knowledge, and what science can and cannot tell us about reality.
    Progressive research program

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    A research program (a long-term scientific project) that is making genuine progress by solving new problems and explaining more things over time.
    Research program(as used in philosophy of science)
    A long-term scientific or philosophical project that uses a core set of ideas and methods to solve problems, kind of like a strategy that a scientist commits to over many years.

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