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Induction, complexity, and economic methodology
Smith, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
falsificationism, which plays an important part in scientific methodology generally; the paper is part of a wider study of economic … methodology. The standard objections to, and paradoxes of, induction are reviewed, and this leads to the conclusion that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836295
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Schumpeter's Idea of a Universal Science
Bögenhold, Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
considered not only his latest but also his most relevant analysis concerning social sciences and the role of economics in … economics, this paper argues that Schumpeter could also, perhaps primarily, be interpreted as a well-reasoning institutionalist …
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Causality in economics
Cavalieri, Duccio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
This is an essay on the concept of causality in economics, both in an ontological and in a gnoseological sense. That is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107789
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Economic crisis, world economy, economics and economic policy.
Sherstnev, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the current discussions on the the state of economics with special focus on the interreletionships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151129
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dangerous relations. Economics and.....history
Tattara, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The article explores the problem of boudaries between economics and history. The richeness that derives by crossing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107649
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The anti-materialist project of "The Bourgeois Era"
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
It is a materialist prejudice common in scholarship from 1890 to 1980 that economic results must have economic causes. But ideas caused the modern world. The point can be made by looking through each of the materialist explanations, from the “original accumulation” favored by early Marxist...
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Policy Advice Derived From Simulation Models
Brenner, Thomas; Werker, Claudia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
When advising policy we face the fundamental problem that economic processes are connected with uncertainty and thus policy can err. In this paper we show how the use of simulation models can reduce policy errors. We suggest that policy is best based on so-called abductive simulation models,...
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On the Problem of Dependent People: hyperbolic discounting in Atlantic Canadian island jurisdictions
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Prince Edward Island's Economics, Statistics and Federal Fiscal Relations Division's 33rd Annual Statistical Review …
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The World is Flat: Modeling Educators’ Misconduct with Cellular Automata
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
horizontal ties with the help of cellular automata. This paper offers a theoretical framework and a methodology based on cellular … presented methodology is based on cellular automata. In the essence of cellular automata are different programming …. Applicability of the offered methodology and its value is in modeling, simulation, and control. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836218
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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