Methodus Vol. 5   No. 1 June 1993 Contents Page Introducing A New Journal 3 Articles Why Economists Can't Read Craig Freedman 6 Alexandria and Mathematical Economics Gordon Tullock 24 The Conservatism of programme Continuity: Criticism of lakatosian Methodology in Economics Bart Nooteboom 31 "Empirical Content" and Formal Economic Theory Arnis Vilks 47 Methodological Principles of Institutional Political Economy: Holism, Evolution and Contradiction Phillip Anthony O'Hara 51 Symposium on "Economics and Biology" Can Biology Inspire Economists? Alex Viskovatoff 72 Theoretical Links between Economics and Evolutionary Biology Joseph Loreato 79 The Exosomatic Mode of Human Evolution and a Clarification of Nicholas Georgeseu-Roegen's Thoughts on Entropy, the Economic Process, Dialectics and Evolution Kozo Mayumi 88 Natural Selection and Economics Maurice Lagueux 93 Cycles and Evolution in Ecology and Economics J. Barkley Rosser Jr. 101 Frustrated Physicists x Baffled Biologists Yields Giant Hybrid Delphian Economists ??? Hans Larsen 104 The Implications of Puntuated Equilibrium for Economic Theory and Policy John M. Gowdy 111 The Software Market as a Complex Evolving System Ben Goertzel 114 Economic Applications in Biology Gordon Tullock 122 "Punctuated Equilibrium" and Economic Research Albert Somit 124 Discussion of Elias Khalil's "Economics and Biology: Eight Areas of Research" S.N. Salthe 126 Book Review Column Rhetoric and Normativism: An Idiosyncratic Appraisal from the Standpoint of the History of Economic Thought Mark Perlman 129 Does Theory of Rationality Need Folk Psychology? Elias L. Khalil 140 David versus the Goliaths Steven Pressman 144 In Search of a "New" Paradigm in Economics Hans C. Blomqvist 147 Lakatos Again Daniel M. Hausman 150 Endnotes are grouped as a single .PDF file. Reports from Area Correspondents 154 Papers Received 156 Obituary 157 Call for Book Proposals 158 Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting 159 Letter to Membership 160