Mayumi, Kozo; Ramos-Martin, Jesus; Giampietro, Mario - Unitat d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de … - 2010
relation to curve fitting practice in economics. Unfortunately, many empirical and theoretical studies in economics, as well as … dependent on the available data set. The last section deals with economists’ “curve fitting fetishism”. We propose that a … distinction be made between curve fitting over past observations and the development of a theoretical or empirical law capable of …