Why Are “Microfoundations” Irrelevant? An Argument for Reorienting the Debate
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Published online on January 21, 2026
Abstract
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 177-194, March 2026.
Microfoundations have long been the subject of a methodological debate over how microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis are understood to relate to one another. Despite once being an important debate with profound consequences for how economics was ...
Microfoundations have long been the subject of a methodological debate over how microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis are understood to relate to one another. Despite once being an important debate with profound consequences for how economics was ...