My review title really says it all. The book covers all the big names, gives an accurate account of their work, and yet is "economical" in style. This is definitely a first port of call for any budding economic methodologist, a valuable refresher for the elderly method-obessionist, and an excellent means of justifying the study of philosophical questions underpinning, if somewhat unconsciously sometimes, theoretical and applied economics (not to mention the other social sciences). All thinking economists should possess this book. (Unthinking economists will simply have to go the grave less confused AND less enlightened.)