Economic Theory and Causal Inference

The article explores the relationship between the main approaches to causality in economics dividing them into reductionist and structuralist accounts. The approaches of the Cowles Commission, Granger-causality, causality as invariance under interventions, and graph-theoretic approaches to causality are considered with special attention to how they relate causal inference to economic theory

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Year of publication:	[2008]
Authors:	Hoover, Kevin D.
Publisher:	[2008]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Kausalanalyse \| Causality analysis \| Wirtschaftstheorie \| Economic theory \| Induktive Statistik \| Statistical inference

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSPHY OF ECONOMICS, Uskali Mäki, ed., Forthcoming
Classification:	B41 - Economic Methodology ; B16 - History of Economic Thought: Quantitative and Mathematical ; B23 - Econometrics; Quantitative Studies ; C10 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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