Includes bibliographical references and index.

The methodology of positive economics (1953) / Milton Friedman -- Reading the methodological essay in twentieth-century economics: map of multiple perspectives / Uskali Mäki -- Early drafts of Friedman's methodology essay / J. Daniel Hammond -- Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement / Uskali Mäki -- The influence of Friedman's methodological essay / Tom Mayer -- Did Milton Friedman's positive methodology license the formalist revolution? / D. Wade Hands -- Appraisal of evidence in economic methodology / Melvin W. Reder -- The politics of positivism: disinterested predictions from interested agents / David Teira Serrano and Jesús Zamora Bonilla -- Friedman's 1953 essay and the marginalist controversy / Roger E. Backhouse -- Friedman (1953) and the theory of the firm / Oliver E. Williamson -- Friedman's selection argument revisited / Jack Vromen -- Expected utility and Friedman's risky methodology / Chris Starmer -- Milton Friedman's stance: the methodology of causal realism / Kevin D. Hoover -- On the right side for the wrong reason: Friedman on the Marshall-Walras divide / Michel De Vroey -- The debate over F53 after fifty years / Mark Blaug -- Final word / Milton Friedman.