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The dominant model of science at the center of economics, psychology, and philosophy across the 20th century was detonated by Kuhn, Scriven, Wright, Hull, and Hayek, of those no one set off bigger megatonnage bombs than Hayek — and Hayek set off not one bomb but three.
The false model of science that came to us from Mill, Windelband, the neo-Kantians, the German economics, Bridgman, Mach, Dewey, Nagel, Carnap, Hempel & the rest, and which gave us the scientific trainwreck of Skinner’s behaviorism, and Samuelson, Arrow & Friedman’s economics 1/
was detonated by Hayek’s *The Sensory Order* and his essays “Economics and Knowledge”, “Degrees of Explanation” and “The Theory of Complex Phenomena” 2/
