Theory-testing with cases is ascertaining whether the empirical evidence in a case or in a sample of cases either … supports or does not support the theory. There are two methodologies for theory-testing with cases, (a) testing in a single … case (‘theory-testing single case study'), and (b) testing in a sample of cases (‘theory-testing sample case study'). The …

psychology, since at least 2005. That’s because the way you do an experiment, evaluate and report it, is unbelievably important … replicate findings. Second, modern economics is here understood as modern micro-economic theory as sketched out in Kreps (2020 …

. This paper takes a complementary, comparative approach, examining theory development in the natural sciences. Examples show … process occurring over a long timescale. Models are typically nested within this broader theory. This could be a good model … sector raises the question, how to realise what has been omitted? Nesting models in an empirically based causal theory could …

This article is about the relationship between visions and theory. In the modern vision, the world is a collection of …

illustrates these concerns with a thought experiment, based on the debate in environmental economics about the appropriate … then use the insights from this thought experiment to point out some pitfalls of the modern macroeconomic methodology. …