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a fundamental and equally enduring problem: "Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly … its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected … a lack of knowledge of the assumptions on which a theory is based, but also because of the extreme importance for …
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problem: it is not a single theory, but rather four major theories in a stormy sea of ill-conceived and untenable auxiliary … conjecture. Moreover, the solid core of Hardin's central thesis was simply a restatement of a previously published theory, the …
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The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
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This essay examines the role of data and program-code archives in making economic research 'replicable.' Replication of published results is recognized as an essential part of the scientific method. Yet, historically, both the 'demand for' and 'supply of' replicable results in economics has been...
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assumptions or rational choice theory on which much of social scientism is built. Critics of the natural science ideal in the … rational choice theory argue that it is a reductionism that does not account for a significant proportion of human actions and …. This paper however posits that rationalist assumptions or rational choice theory is not peculiar to social scientism but …
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a test and logical deduction of our illustrative theory: Cancer rates on Prince Edward Island have dramatically … conclude our theory is true and, in order to complete our demonstration of Popper's methods, open this theory to criticism and …
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In reply to Graham, Johnson and Schnabel (1977), we point out that they have raised a relatively difficult question in scientific method. Provided our earlier work is accepted as operating in the context of the two-period model, we reassert that it revealed no anomalous evidence.
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