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Models, conjectures and exploration: an analysis of Schelling's checkerboard model of residential segregation

Aydinonat, N. Emrah - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 14 (2007) 4, pp. 429-454

argues that the explanation of emergence of segregation which is based on the checkerboard model is a partial potential … (theoretical) explanation. Yet it is also argued that despite its partiality, the checkerboard model is valuable because it …

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Contrastive explanation and unrealistic models: The case of the new economic geography

Marchionni, Caterina - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 13 (2006) 4, pp. 425-446

The contrastive approach to explanation is employed to shed light on the issue of the unrealisticness of models and …

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Chapter 9 Approximate Nonlinear Forecasting Methods

White, Halbert - 2006

We review key aspects of forecasting using nonlinear models. Because economic models are typically misspecified, the resulting forecasts provide only an approximation to the best possible forecast. Although it is in principle possible to obtain superior approximations to the optimal forecast...

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'Misguided monetary messages': The Austrian case, 1931 - 34

Klausinger, Hansjorg - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12 (2005) 1, pp. 25-45

This paper deals with the apparent contradiction between the monetarist explanation of the Great Depression (as the …

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Flying bicycles: How the Wright brothers invented the airplane

Johnson-Laird, Philip - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 4 (2005) 1, pp. 27-48

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Automated detection and explanation of exceptional values in a datamining environment

Daniels, Hennie; Caron, Emiel - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2005

built into the conventional OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) or datamining system using a generic explanation formalism … system with an explanation formalism, which mimics the work of human decision makers in diagnostic processes. Here diagnosis … is defined as finding the best explanation of unexpected behaviour (symptoms or exceptional values) of a system under …

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Agricultural Information and Indigenous Knowledge in Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

. Measures of central tendency, logical explanation, descriptive analysis, problem solving tests, scoring and logit analysis were …

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Some claims made for critical realism in economics: two case studies

Hodgson, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 11 (2004) 1, pp. 53-73

Instead of examining critical realism directly, this essay critically examines claims made by two prominent critical realists, namely Andrew Collier and Tony Lawson, on behalf of their philosophy. These are (a) that critical realism supports Marx's law of the tendency of the rate of profit to...

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Objective Explanations of Individual Well-being

Varelius, J. - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 5 (2004) 1, pp. 73-91

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Social Scientific Explanations?

Faber, Jan; Scheper, Willem - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 37 (2003) 2, pp. 135-150

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