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Is Falsificationism Unpractised or Unpractisable?

In a recent issue of this journal (14, 1984, 489-95) Bruce Caldwell argues that falsificationism is just too hard to practice in economics. He takes falsificationism to demand that theories be put to tests which are such that if the results are unfavourable, the theory under test must be given up or substantially modified. But it would obviously be silly to permit the results of any test, no matter how faulty it might be to lead to such drastic action. Thus,